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.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -i, --initial
- do not convert tabs after non blanks
- -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
AUTHOR¶
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report expand bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <
http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report expand translation bugs to <
http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO¶
unexpand(1)
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 coreutils 'expand invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
