You can also use the expand utility to specify the number of spaces between a tab. See below for an illustration.
Original file with tabs
# cat -v -t esoftfile
esoft^Iesoft^Iesoft^Iesoft
esoft^Iesoft^Iesoft^Iesoft
esoft^Iesoft^Iesoft^Iesoft
esoft^Iesoft^Iesoft^Iesoft
esoft^Iesoft^Iesoft^Iesoft
Convert tab to 20 spaces
# expand -20 esoftfile | cat -t -v
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
Convert tab to 10 spaces
# expand -10 esoftfile | cat -v -t
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
Convert tab to 2 spaces
# expand -2 esoftfile | cat -v -t
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
esoft esoft esoft esoft
1 comment:
It's kind of hard to see what's happening since all the spaces display as a single space.
Here's some other ways to convert tabs to spaces in Unix:
http://mlawire.blogspot.com/2009/07/convert-tabs-to-spaces.html
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