How to convert spaces in a file to TABs and vice versa using unexpand and expand commands
The Linux core utils package provides two commands called “expand” and “unexpand” to help converting TAB characters to space characters in a file and vice versa.
To convert TAB characters in to space characters:
expand data1.txt
To convert space characters in to TAB characters:
unexpand data2.txt
about 1 year ago
Woot, I will certainly put this to good use!