From: "Nick Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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?

Press the tab key instead?

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