Linux cli command unexpand

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NAME 🖥️ unexpand 🖥️

convert spaces to tabs

SYNOPSIS

unexpand [OPTION]… [FILE]…

DESCRIPTION

Convert blanks in each FILE to tabs, writing to standard output.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-a, –all
convert all blanks, instead of just initial blanks

–first-only
convert only leading sequences of blanks (overrides -a)

-t, –tabs=N
have tabs N characters apart instead of 8 (enables -a)

-t, –tabs=LIST
use comma separated list of tab positions. The last specified position can be prefixed with ‘/’ to specify a tab size to use after the last explicitly specified tab stop. Also a prefix of ‘+’ can be used to align remaining tab stops relative to the last specified tab stop instead of the first column

–help
display this help and exit

–version
output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

expand(1)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/unexpand>
or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) unexpand invocation’

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