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6 expand - convert tabs to spaces
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9 expand [OPTION]... [FILE]...
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12 Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output. With
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18 -i, --initial
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21 -t, --tabs=NUMBER
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25 use comma separated list of explicit tab positions
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27 --help display this help and exit
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33 Written by David MacKenzie.
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36 Report expand bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
37 GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
38 General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
39 Report expand translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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42 Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
43 GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
44 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
45 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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50 The full documentation for expand is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
51 If the info and expand programs are properly installed at your site,
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60GNU coreutils 8.5 November 2010 EXPAND(1)