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- NAME
- expand - convert tabs to spaces
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- SYNOPSIS
- expand [-tab1[,tab2[,...]]] [-t tab1[,tab2[,...]]] [-i]
- [--tabs=tab1[,tab2[,...]]] [--initial] [file...]
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of expand.
- expand writes the contents of each given file, or the stan-
- dard input if none are given or when a file named `-' is
- given, to the standard output, with tab characters converted
- to the appropriate number of spaces. By default, expand
- converts all tabs to spaces. It preserves backspace charac-
- ters in the output; they decrement the column count for tab
- calculations. The default action is equivalent to -8 (set
- tabs every 8 columns).
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- OPTIONS
- -, -_t, --_t_a_b_s _t_a_b_1[,_t_a_b_2[,...]]
- If only one tab stop is given, set the tabs _t_a_b_1 spaces
- apart instead of the default 8. Otherwise, set the
- tabs at columns _t_a_b_1, _t_a_b_2, etc. (numbered from 0) and
- replace any tabs beyond the tabstops given with single
- spaces. If the tabstops are specified with the -_t or
- --_t_a_b_s option, they can be separated by blanks as well
- as by commas.
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- -_i, --_i_n_i_t_i_a_l
- Only convert initial tabs (those that precede all non
- space or tab characters) on each line to spaces.
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- The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as
- `--', for compatibility with previous releases. Eventually
- support for `+' will be removed, because it is incompatible
- with the POSIX.2 standard.
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