Re: expand tabs in a shell

[Bruce Ingalls]

David Rasmussen wrote:
> Joakim Hove wrote:
> > how about redirection: 
> > expand file > tmp_file ; mv tmp_file file
>
> Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem with batch runs. I can't do
>
> expand *.cpp
>
> which would have been very easy.

#!/bin/zsh
#or choose a sufficiently powerful shell, such as bash

for file in *.cpp
do
 expand $file > tmp_file
 mv tmp_file $file
done

#See also nntp://comp.unix.shell