Questions tagged [tabulation]
Tabulation (or tab for short) is a horizontal whitespace that adjusts to a column width.
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Expand tabs in file with utf8 characters
I use expand to expand tabs to spaces. For utf8 files expand doesn't work correctly. E.g. in ć\ta tab is expanded to 6 spaces while in a\ta to 7 spaces.
How do I make it work for utf8 files?
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What is wrong with using "\t" to grep for tab-separated values?
I have a .tsv file (values separated by tabs) with four values. So each line should have only three tabs and some text around each tab like this:
value value2 value3 value4
But it looks that some ...
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Kate replaces text instead of indenting when typing Tab on selected lines
I tried to change all the indentation settings to fix another problem yesterday, but now I have the following problem and I don't know which setting causes it.
If I select lines and type Tab, I would ...
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How to prevent tabulated outputs of functons being messed up when using 'watch' over ssh?
While ssh-ing into my server I want to be able to monitor for activity over certain port using netstat. Instead of running it manually I want to automate it with watch. While the command (sudo netstat ...
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How to search for all tabs between two quotation marks with grep / egrep
I'm looking for all tabs between two quotation marks with grep / egrep in a bash.
I tried
grep -r . -e "\".*\t.*\""
grep -r . -e "\".*\\t.*\""
grep -r . -e "\".*\\\\t.*\""
grep -r . -e '\".*\t.*\"'
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What '\t' mean with 'tab' delimiter with 'cut' in BASH [duplicate]
In this command :
cut -f2 -d$'\t'
('\t') what is it mean ?
i saw it another question, i got the idea about "tab" delimiter but still want to know '\t' shortcut or sign or command for something
How ...
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Can I force column to emit whitespaces instead of tabs?
I'd like to tabularize a file with the column command:
$ column -c 60 file.txt
The output is nice on the screen, but unusable for my purposes because the items are seperated by tabs. for further ...
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How does unexpand command really work?
I've already read some explananations about unexpand, but either I don't understand, or is not working as expected.
Let's consider the following example:
[root@hope log]# echo "A12345678B" | tr '[1-...
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removing all tabs in sqlplus
I can resolve this problem, but I don't understand why it happens.
My task is: (in ksh)
1st step: Query a number from a DB with sqlplus,
2nd step: Format some text for a mail,
3rd step: send a mail ...
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What command(s) will feed a tab-delimited text file and cut each line to 80 characters?
I've got multiple-line text files of (sometimes) tab-delimited data. I'd like to output the file so I can glance over it - so I'd like to only see the first 80 characters of each line (I designed the ...
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set tab width for less output
Is it possible for less output to set the tab width to a number X as it is for cat?
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How to set default tabs only for cat?
I prefer to set tabs 4 however this may have some side effects, such as for example ls out put may look not properly aligned. How might I configure the terminal / cat to use four spaces for tabs for ...
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A shell tool to “tablify” input data containing ANSI escape codes
I have input containing ANSI color codes that I'd like to tablify. I want the output to remain colored, so the tablified output should maintain the ANSI color codes. Hence, naively stripping them away ...
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How do I make Kate indent with spaces on Python files but use tabs for text files and other files?
My goal is to set Kate up to work properly on Python files but to use different settings (tabs not spaces) on other documents. I'm sure others are doing this, but I can't figure out a convenient ...
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command to layout tab separated list nicely
Sometimes, I'm getting as an input tab separated list, which is not quite aligned, for instance
var1 var2 var3
var_with_long_name_which_ruins_alignment var2 var3
Is there an easy way to render ...
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How to configure Kate to always use 2 spaces for tabulation?
By default Kate inserts 2 spaces on Tab press but switches to real tabs starting from the fourth Tab level. Can I disable this and use spaces always, regardless to the depth?
I want this because I ...
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