Francis T. O'Donovan

Principal Data Scientist at TriNet – Planet discoverer, researcher, developer, geek.

Nix: Convert tabs to/from spaces

March 3, 2017 less than 1 minute read

The command expand in GNU coreutils converts tabs in each input file to spaces. The command unexpand does the reverse, converting spaces in each input files back to tabs.

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