On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:42:43PM -0600, Chris Wilson wrote: > Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place: maybe cat (and man, and less, > and others) all have their own tab stop values independent of the > shell. I'm hoping they don't, and that in bash or elsewhere there is a > tab length setting that I can modify to taste. >
They all have the same tab stop value: 8 characters. Look at the following lines: this is a test 1 this is another test 2 here is yet another test 3 Those numbers won't line up if you don't have it printing at 8 characters. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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