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From: grs@alobar.ATT.COM (Gregg Siegfried)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tabs converted to spaces?
Summary: tabs to spaces
Keywords: tr
Message-ID: <187@alobar.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 88 19:26:42 GMT
References: <3940001@hpgrla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: grs@alobar.att.com (Gregg Siegfried)
Organization: AT&T OSS Development, Cincinnati
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In article <3940001@hpgrla.HP.COM> douglasg@hpgrla.HP.COM (@Douglas Genetten) writes:
>Is there a filter which converts tabs to n-spaces throughout
>a file?

I've found that tr(1) does a pretty good job of this.  If you're printing
the file, pr(1) also does what you need.

Enjoy,
Gregg Siegfried

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