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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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      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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