expand
Convert tabs to spaces. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/expand-invocation.html.
- Convert tabs in each file to spaces, writing to
stdout:
expand path/to/file
- Convert tabs to spaces, reading from
stdin:
expand
- Do not convert tabs after non blanks:
expand -i path/to/file
- Have tabs a certain number of characters apart, not 8:
expand -t number path/to/file
- Use a comma separated list of explicit tab positions:
expand -t 1,4,6