On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, Kunal Zodape wrote:
If the text editor is configured to treat "tabs as spaces" then the '\t' character simply won't appear so it's all spaces. I think you can simply sed -n '/^\tp' filename which will print the relevant lines which start with at least one tab character. Most text editors should also have an option to display whitespace characters in the settings (I know Kate does). But if you have spaces for tabs you'll have to search for 4/8 spaces instead. Something like sed -n '/^<four/ eight spaces>p' filename.
Thanks, Rich
