[PLUG] Identifying white space in text files

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Dec 24 15:01:26 UTC 2024


On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, Kunal Zodape wrote:

> If the text editor is configured to treat "tabs as spaces" then the '\t'
> character simply won't appear so it's all spaces. I think you can simply
> sed -n '/^\tp' filename which will print the relevant lines which start
> with at least one tab character. Most text editors should also have an
> option to display whitespace characters in the settings (I know Kate
> does). But if you have spaces for tabs you'll have to search for 4/8
> spaces instead. Something like sed -n '/^<four/ eight spaces>p' filename.

Thanks,

Rich


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