expand

Options

--initial, -i

expand-help-initial

--tabs=<N, LIST>, -t <N, LIST>

expand-help-tabs

--no-utf8, -U

expand-help-no-utf8

Examples

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|--initial]}} {{path/to/file}}

Have tabs a certain number of characters apart, not 8:

expand {{[-t|--tabs]}} {{number}} {{path/to/file}}

Use a comma separated list of explicit tab positions:

expand {{[-t|--tabs]}} {{1,4,6}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.