unexpand

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.