Subject: Re: Terminal tab expansion
To: Thomas Bieg <tomsbsd03@t-email.de>
From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3?= Pasternak <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/10/2003 18:11:26
Thomas Bieg [Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 05:30:21PM +0200]:
> Micha³ Pasternak wrote:
> >
> >       cat somefile | tr \\t "  "
> >
> 
> This won't work as expected. The two arguments of tr are
> regarded as two sets of characters, mapping each character

Of course, my fault. Anyway, in some cases (tabs only at the beginning of
line), it could do it's job. Speaking about don't-knowing-the-shell - have
you seen http://www.krename.net ? IMHO it's quite funny - a tool, which does
shell's job, needing 40 MB of libraries and X.

Regards,
-- 
Micha³ Pasternak :: http://pasternak.w.lub.pl
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