Hi,
Reference:
> From:         Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> 
> Date:         Wed, 18 May 2011 12:10:01 -0700 
> Message-id:   <20110518191001.ga22...@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 <dnel...@allantgroup.com>
> > Subject: Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)
> > To: Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org>
> > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@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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