I am no Linux expert, but I have been programing in DOS and PERL for a
while, and I would think the the \t is a fixed tab. To change the actual
number of spaces would be done on the viewing program, I believe.
Shawn
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles M Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 2:06 PM
Subject: adjusting tab space in tr
> I used tr to organize a file into records using...
>
> tr ' ' '\t' <old.file >new.file
>
> I was wondering if I could define the tab-size.
>
> Matthew
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