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/>
Report unexpand translation bugs to <
http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2011 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.
SEE ALSO¶
expand(1)
The full documentation for
unexpand is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the
info and
unexpand programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
- info coreutils 'unexpand invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.