expand Command Examples

Convert tabs to spaces. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/expand-invocation.html.

• 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}}