unexpand
v(uutils coreutils) 0.1.0
Options
--all
,-a
-
unexpand-help-all
--first-only
,-f
-
unexpand-help-first-only
--tabs=<N, LIST>
,-t <N, LIST>
-
unexpand-help-tabs
--no-utf8
,-U
-
unexpand-help-no-utf8
Examples
Convert blanks in each file to tabs, writing to stdout
:
unexpand {{path/to/file}}
Convert blanks to tabs, reading from stdout
:
unexpand
Convert all blanks, instead of just initial blanks:
unexpand {{[-a|--all]}} {{path/to/file}}
Convert only leading sequences of blanks (overrides -a):
unexpand --first-only {{path/to/file}}
Have tabs a certain number of characters apart, not 8 (enables -a):
unexpand {{[-t|--tabs]}} {{number}} {{path/to/file}}
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.