now a sed query

[Nick Rout]

I figured to get all thew annoying tab characters out of a file, all I
needed to do was

cat filename|sed -e 's/\t//g' >newfile

but this just strips out the letter "t"

so i tried 

cat filename|sed -e 's/\x09//g' >newfile (hex for tab)

and

cat filename|sed -e 's/\011//g' >newfile  (octal for tab)

and numerous other variations, but nothing does what I want.

Any ideas?
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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>