GNU bug report logs - #22001
Is it possible to tab separate concatenated files?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Macdonald, Kim - BCCDC" <kim.macdonald <at> bccdc.ca>

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: "Macdonald, Kim - BCCDC" <kim.macdonald <at> bccdc.ca>, 22001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22001: Is it possible to tab separate concatenated files?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:46:31 -0500

Correcting myself:

On 11/23/2015 05:02 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> If you have a file (one file) with spaces and you wish to convert
> them to tabs, consider the 'expand' command (then pipe to 'cat' if
> needed).
>

"unexpand" will convert spaces to tabs,
"expand" will convert tabs to spaces.
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