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 <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)
> To: Gary Kline <[email protected]>
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <[email protected]>
>
> 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!]
aapreciate it.
>
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