expand.1 (581B)
1 .TH EXPAND 1 sbase\-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 expand \- expand tabs to spaces 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B expand 6 .RB [ \-t 7 .IR n ] 8 .RI [ file ...] 9 .SH DESCRIPTION 10 expand processes the named files or the standard input, writing the 11 standard output with tabs changed into spaces. Backspace characters 12 are preserved into the output and decrement the column count for tab 13 calculations. 14 .SH OPTIONS 15 .TP 16 .BI \-i 17 Only change tabs to spaces at the start of lines. 18 .TP 19 .BI \-t " n" 20 Expand tabs to 21 .I n 22 spaces. We currently support only a single numerical argument. 23 .SH SEE ALSO 24 .IR unexpand (1), 25 .IR fold (1)