1 .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.3.
2 .TH EXPAND "1" "January 2016" "GNU coreutils 8.25" "User Commands"
4 expand \- convert tabs to spaces
7 [\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...
9 .\" Add any additional description here
11 Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output.
13 With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
15 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
17 \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-initial\fR
18 do not convert tabs after non blanks
20 \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-tabs\fR=\fI\,NUMBER\/\fR
21 have tabs NUMBER characters apart, not 8
23 \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-tabs\fR=\fI\,LIST\/\fR
24 use comma separated list of explicit tab positions
27 display this help and exit
30 output version information and exit
32 Written by David MacKenzie.
34 GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
36 Report expand translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
38 Copyright \(co 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
39 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
41 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
42 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
47 Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/expand>
49 or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) expand invocation\(aq