notabs(1) notabs(1)
NAME
notabs - convert all tab characters to spaces in text files
SYNOPSIS
notabs [-h(elp)] [-q(uiet)] [-v(erbose)] file...
DESCRIPTION
notabs converts all tab characters to spaces in text file using a com-
bination of the expand, sed, and tempname utilities.
OPTIONS
-h Print help and quit.
-q Quiet output. No output commentary will be printed.
-v Verbose output. Commentary about unchanged files will be
printed in addition to the normal commentary about changed
files.
EXAMPLES
Remove tabs from a couple of files:
notabs file01.txt file02.txt
Remove tabs from a large block of source code:
find . -name "*.c" -print0 | xargs -0 notabs
find . -name "*.h" -print0 | xargs -0 notabs
SEE ALSO
expand(1), sed(1), tempname(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004-2020 by Brian Lindholm. This program is free soft-
ware; you can use it, redistribute it, and/or modify it under the terms
of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
littleutils 2020 Oct 19 notabs(1)
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