Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi,
Reference:
> From:		Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> 
> Date:		Wed, 18 May 2011 12:10:01 -0700 
> Message-id:	<20110518191001.GA22364 at thought.org> 

Gary Kline wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:09:36PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:09:36 -0500
> > From: Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
> > Subject: Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)
> > To: Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > 
> > In the last episode (May 18), Gary Kline said:
> > > should i use tr or sed to turn "\t" into " "?  --i.e., tabs into spaces.
> > 
> > tr or expand (depending on whether you want to honor the intent of the tab
> > or not).  sed is overkill.
> 
> 
> 	yeah, agree.  i grabbed an old `for k in *;do' script and used tr on 
> 	80+ files.  [facing reality, i'm throwing in the towel on hacking.
> 	wanted something easy!]

http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/tab/tab.c
	& tab.1 & Makefile
	works on the assumption of 8,16 etc, not other minorities eg ts=4

	Mature code 1988 till now. Hasn't burnt me yet.

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com
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