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Date:      Wed, 18 May 2011 13:09:36 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?)
Message-ID:  <20110518180936.GD34082@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110518174141.GA62977@thought.org>
References:  <20110518174141.GA62977@thought.org>

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In the last episode (May 18), Gary Kline said:
> should i use tr or sed to turn "\t" into " "?  --i.e., tabs into spaces.

tr or expand (depending on whether you want to honor the intent of the tab
or not).  sed is overkill.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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