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Re: how to replace tab by '\t' (literally) with tr?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: how to replace tab by '\t' (literally) with tr? |
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:00:51 -0700 |
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According to Andreas Schwab on 12/28/2009 3:51 PM:
> Incidentally,
> due to your use of double quotes this is a no-op ("\t" and "\\t" are the
> same).
Actually, "\t" is undefined in portable shell. While bash treats it like
"\\t", dash does interpolate it into a tab character.
But the rest of this email is correct - the only way to get a one-to-many
replacement is to use a tool like sed, awk, or perl, and not one of the
coreutils.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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