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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)expand.1    6.2 (Berkeley) 5/9/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH EXPAND 1 "May 9, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: expand, unexpand \- expand tabs to spaces, and vice versa
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B expand
        !            13: [
        !            14: \-tabstop
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: \-tab1,tab2,...,tabn
        !            17: ] [
        !            18: file ...
        !            19: ]
        !            20: .br
        !            21: .B unexpand
        !            22: [
        !            23: .B \-a
        !            24: ] [
        !            25: file ...
        !            26: ]
        !            27: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            28: .I Expand
        !            29: processes the named files or the standard input writing
        !            30: the standard output with tabs changed into blanks.
        !            31: Backspace characters are preserved into the output and decrement
        !            32: the column count for tab calculations.
        !            33: .I Expand
        !            34: is useful for pre-processing character files
        !            35: (before sorting, looking at specific columns, etc.) that
        !            36: contain tabs.
        !            37: .PP
        !            38: If a single
        !            39: .I tabstop
        !            40: argument is given, then tabs are set
        !            41: .I tabstop
        !            42: spaces apart instead of the default 8.
        !            43: If multiple tabstops are given then the tabs are set at those
        !            44: specific columns.
        !            45: .PP
        !            46: .I Unexpand
        !            47: puts tabs back into the data from the standard input or the named
        !            48: files and writes the result on the standard output.
        !            49: By default, only leading blanks and tabs
        !            50: are reconverted to maximal strings of tabs.  If the
        !            51: .B \-a
        !            52: option is given, then tabs are inserted whenever they would compress the
        !            53: resultant file by replacing two or more characters.

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