[PLUG] tabs in sed

Sandy Herring sandy at herring.org
Tue Jul 16 20:44:08 UTC 2002


Michael,

Most versions of sed don't parse `\t' to mean <tab>. To enter an actual tab
character, you need to escape it with ^v (Ctrl-v). e.g.

sed 's/[<Tab>]//g' foo.txt > bar.txt

...where <Tab> signifies ^v followed by a keyboard tab.

Sandy

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Michael Montagne wrote: 
> I'm trying to get rid if multiple tabs using sed.  How do I specify a
> TAB character at the command line? \t doesn't work and pressing the TAB
> key doesn't work either.
> 
> thanks.
> -- 
>   Michael Montagne  [montagne at boora.com]   503.226.1575 

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