detab -- Command

Replace tab characters with spaces
detab [tabsize]

The command  detab reads the  standard input, replaces  every tab character
with spaces, and writes the result to the standard output.

detab  assumes that  a tab  stop  occurs every  tabsize, which  must be  an
integer  greater than  one  and less  than  257.  If  you do  not supply  a
tabsize, detab assumes that a  tab stop occurs every eight characters.  You
can  also  override  the default  tab  size  by  setting the  environmental
variable TABSIZE to a value other than eight.

See Also

commands

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