Thomas Miller [Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:07:36AM -0400]:
> > what do you want to do?
> 
> I have files containing tab separated data.  Some lines are too 
> long (exceed 80 characters) if tabs are expanded to 8 spaces. I 
> want to use shell level tools like cat, sort, and awk without 
> line breaks when the standard output hits the terminal screen. 
> If I can reset tabs to 2 spaces, this will work.  

       cat somefile | tr \\t "  "

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