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Convert tabs in each FILE to spaces, writing to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

Options

--help, -h

Print help information

--version, -V

Print version information

--initial, -i

do not convert tabs after non blanks

--tabs=<N, LIST>, -t <N, LIST>

have tabs N characters apart, not 8 or use comma separated list of explicit tab positions

--no-utf8, -U

interpret input file as 8-bit ASCII rather than UTF-8