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From: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sed/grep problems
Message-ID: <4615@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 14:35:40 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.115717.1339@iesd.auc.dk>
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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claus@iesd.auc.dk (Claus S. Jensen) writes:


>  I'm looking for a way to do some things concerning the tab-symbol.

>1) I would like to find occurences of tab (\t) in a file.
>   grep "\t" <file> doesn't work.

>2) And I would like to use sed to replace these tabs with
>   spaces.
>   sed -e "s/\t/   /g" <file> doesn't work.

Use the <tab> instead of \t.
But... if it doesn't accept the <tab>, you have to write a file with:
	 sed 's/	/bla/g' < $1 > $1.bla
It's tested on SVR3.2

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				gerhard.
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