

DETAB (1)                    8/20/79                    DETAB (1)


NAME
       detab - convert tabs to spaces

SYNOPSIS
       detab [<t1>...] [+<n>] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
       Detab  converts  tab  characters (control-i) to equivalent
       strings of blanks.  Tab stops  are  indicated  by  <t1>...
       (default  8,  16,  ...),  while  +<n>  indicates tab stops
       every <n> columns.  Thus the command
       
          detab 5 21 +5
       
       supplies blanks for tabs terminating at  column  positions
       5,  21,  26, etc.  If no files are specified, the standard
       input is read.  An isolated minus sign also indicates  the
       standard input. 

SEE ALSO
       entab

AUTHORS

       Original  from  Kernighan  &  Plauger's  'Software Tools',
       with modifications by  Dennis  Hall  and  Debbie  Scherrer
       (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

BUGS/DEFICIENCIES

       File names may not start with numbers. 



























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