UNEXPAND

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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NAME

unexpand - convert spaces to tabs

SYNOPSIS

unexpand [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Convert blanks in each FILE to tabs, writing to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-a, --all: convert all blanks, instead of just initial blanks
--first-only: convert only leading sequences of blanks (overrides -a)
-t, --tabs=N: have tabs N characters apart instead of 8 (enables -a)
-t, --tabs=LIST: use comma separated LIST of tab positions (enables -a)
--help: display this help and exit
--version: output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

Report unexpand bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.