Developer's Daily Unix by Example
  main | java | perl | unix | dev directory | web log
 
 
Main
Unix
Man Pages
   

EXPAND

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

NAME

expand ? convert tabs to spaces

SYNOPSIS

expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

?i, ??initial

do not convert TABs after non whitespace

?t, ??tabs=NUMBER

have tabs NUMBER characters apart, not 8

?t, ??tabs=LIST

use comma separated list of explicit tab positions

??help

display this help and exit

??version

output version information and exit

Instead of ?t NUMBER or ?t LIST, ?NUMBER or ?LIST may be used.

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-textutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for expand is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and expand programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info expand

should give you access to the complete manual.


copyright 1998-2007, devdaily.com, all rights reserved.
devdaily.com, an alvin j. alexander production.