> Because that starts up auto-complete. In other words, I don't know > how to insert a literal tab into a command line.
<control-V><tab> > But I do not like that idea for scripts either - it can be difficult > to visually discriminate a tab from a space character, which can too > easily lead to errors. Then try sed -n '/\t/p' file -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/