TABs (was: Waffling between Python and Ruby)

[Huaiyu Zhu]

Thanks a lot.  It really helps.

On 18 Jun 2000 16:29:37 GMT, Kai Großjohann
<Kai.Grossjohann at CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> wrote: 
>hzhu at mars.localdomain (Huaiyu Zhu) writes:
>
>> This is simple to do for one file, but not for many files.  I'd prefer
>> running something in batch mode on a list of files.
>
>There are Unix programs `expand' and `unexpand'.  Presumably, running
>the following commands on a file foo would change tab stops from 4 to
>8:
>
>    expand -4 foo > foo.new
>    unexpand -8 foo.new > foo
>    rm -f foo.new
>
>You could easily do this in a loop:
>
>    for f in *.c
>    do
>        expand -4 $f > $f.new
>        unexpand -8 $f.new > $f
>        rm -f $f.new
>    done
>
>Does this help?
>
>kai


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