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From: sow@eru.mt.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg)
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Subject: Re: tabs converted to spaces?
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Date: 20 Jul 88 17:33:13 GMT
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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?
|
|Thanks.



What about this???!!!!


EXPAND(1)           UNIX Programmer's Manual            EXPAND(1)



NAME
     expand, unexpand - expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa

SYNOPSIS
     expand [ -tabstop ] [ -tab1,tab2,...,tabn ] [ file ...  ]
     unexpand [ -a ] [ file ...  ]


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