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- DETAB USER COMMANDS DETAB
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- NAME
- detab - expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa
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- SYNOPSIS
- detab [ -tab1 -tab2... -tabn] [ filename ... ]
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- DESCRIPTION
- detab copies the named files (or the standard input) to the
- standard output, with tabs changed into spaces (blanks).
- detab is useful for pre-processing character files (before
- sorting, looking at specific columns, etc.) that contain
- tabs.
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- DETAB OPTIONS
- -tab1 -tab2... -tabn
- Set tabs at the columns specified by tabi... Specified
- as a single argument sets tabs tab1 spaces
- apart instead of the default 8.
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- SEE ALSO
- entab
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