From: zavandi <zavandi@gmail.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to replace three spaces with tab
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:13:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <321aa0d20506040513580e7f3e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506040604050.7223@localhost.localdomain>
James Miller <jamtatREMOVETHIS@mailsnare.net> wrote:
>
> me@mymachine:~$ unexpand -a -t=3 tmp-test_unexpand > file2
> unexpand: tab size contains an invalid character
> me@mymachine:~$ unexpand -a -t=3 tmp-test_unexpand >file2
> unexpand: tab size contains an invalid character
> me@mymachine:~$ unexpand -all -tabs=3 tmp-test_unexpand > file2
> unexpand: invalid option -- l
> Try `unexpand --help' for more information.
> me@mymachine:~$
unexpand -a -t3 tmp-test_unexpand > file2
...or...
unexpand -a -t 3 tmp-test_unexpand > file2
...or...
unexpand --all --tabs=3 tmp-test_unexpand > file2
...or...
unexpand --all --tabs 3 tmp-test_unexpand > file2
It's all standard getopt_long(3) usage.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-04 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-02 22:11 how to replace three spaces with tab James Miller
2005-06-02 22:40 ` Eric Bambach
2005-06-02 23:35 ` James Miller
2005-06-03 0:07 ` Eric Bambach
2005-06-03 10:08 ` J.
2005-06-04 5:11 ` Franklin Chua
2005-06-04 6:39 ` J.
2005-06-04 11:05 ` James Miller
2005-06-04 12:13 ` zavandi [this message]
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