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