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
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:12:35PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:12:35 +0200
From: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com
Subject: Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)
To: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org
cc: Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com, FreeBSD Mailing List
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
how to i get, say
hello, \t how are \t you
to translate to
hello, how are you
[?]
in other words, tab - 1 space rather than the defaul of 4.
You only need something like expand or tab.c if you want
to convert each tab to a variable number of spaces
should i use tr or sed to turn \t into ? --i.e., tabs into spaces.
tx!
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Subject: kwik way?
should i use tr or sed to turn \t into ? --i.e., tabs into spaces
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Subject: RE: kwik way?
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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
On Wed, 18 May 2011, Devin Teske wrote:
In case you were thinking of either awk or perl, I'd recommend against those
given the following results:
...
$ time sh -c perl -pe 'tr/\t/ /' foo bar
real0m0.565s
user0m0.277s
sys 0m0.137s
$ md5 bar
MD5 (bar) =
