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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35.
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.TH EXPAND "1" "October 2012" "GNU coreutils 8.20" "User Commands"
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expand \- convert tabs to spaces
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[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIFILE\fR]...
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.\" Add any additional description here
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Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output.
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With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
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Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
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\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-initial\fR
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do not convert tabs after non blanks
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\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-tabs\fR=\fINUMBER\fR
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have tabs NUMBER characters apart, not 8
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\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-tabs\fR=\fILIST\fR
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use comma separated list of explicit tab positions
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display this help and exit
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output version information and exit
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Written by David MacKenzie.
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Report expand bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
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GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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Report expand translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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Copyright \(co 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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The full documentation for
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is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
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programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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.B info coreutils \(aqexpand invocation\(aq
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should give you access to the complete manual.