expand - convert tabs to spaces
expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...
EXPAND(1) User Commands EXPAND(1) NAME expand - convert tabs to spaces SYNOPSIS expand [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, 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. -i, --initial do not convert tabs after non blanks -t, --tabs=NUMBER have tabs NUMBER characters apart, not 8 -t, --tabs=LIST use comma separated list of explicit tab positions --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS Report expand 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/> Report expand translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2012 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. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+--------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+--------------------+ |Availability | file/gnu-coreutils | +---------------+--------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+--------------------+ SEE ALSO unexpand(1) The full documentation for expand is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and expand programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'expand invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. NOTES This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core- utils-8.16.tar.xz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. GNU coreutils 8.16 March 2012 EXPAND(1)