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expand - convert tabs to spaces
Návod, kniha: POSIX Programmer's Manual
expand [-t tablist][file
...]
The
expand utility shall write files or the standard input to the
standard output with <tab>s replaced with one or more <space>s
needed to pad to the next tab stop. Any <backspace>s shall be copied to
the output and cause the column position count for tab stop calculations to be
decremented; the column position count shall not be decremented below zero.
The
expand utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following option shall be supported:
- -t tablist
- Specify the tab stops. The application shall ensure that
the argument tablist consists of either a single positive decimal
integer or a list of tabstops. If a single number is given, tabs shall be
set that number of column positions apart instead of the default 8.
If a list of tabstops is given, the application shall ensure that it consists of
a list of two or more positive decimal integers, separated by <blank>s
or commas, in ascending order. The tabs shall be set at those specific column
positions. Each tab stop
N shall be an integer value greater than zero,
and the list is in strictly ascending order. This is taken to mean that, from
the start of a line of output, tabbing to position
N shall cause the
next character output to be in the (
N+1)th column position on that
line.
In the event of
expand having to process a <tab> at a position
beyond the last of those specified in a multiple tab-stop list, the
<tab> shall be replaced by a single <space> in the output.
The following operand shall be supported:
- file
- The pathname of a text file to be used as input.
See the INPUT FILES section.
Input files shall be text files.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
expand:
- LANG
- Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions volume of
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section 8.2, Internationalization
Variables for the precedence of internationalization variables used to
determine the values of locale categories.)
- LC_ALL
- If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
all the other internationalization variables.
- LC_CTYPE
- Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to
multi-byte characters in arguments and input files), the processing of
<tab>s and <space>s, and for the determination of the width in
column positions each character would occupy on an output device.
- LC_MESSAGES
- Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.
- NLSPATH
- Determine the location of message catalogs for the
processing of LC_MESSAGES .
Default.
The standard output shall be equivalent to the input files with <tab>s
converted into the appropriate number of <space>s.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
None.
None.
The following exit values shall be returned:
- 0
- Successful completion
- >0
- An error occurred.
The
expand utility shall terminate with an error message and non-zero
exit status upon encountering difficulties accessing one of the
file
operands.
The following sections are informative.
None.
None.
The
expand utility is useful for preprocessing text files (before
sorting, looking at specific columns, and so on) that contain <tab>s.
See the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Section
3.103, Column Position.
The
tablist option-argument consists of integers in ascending order.
Utility Syntax Guideline 8 mandates that
expand shall accept the
integers (within the single argument) separated using either commas or
<blank>s.
None.
tabs ,
unexpand
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE
Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable
Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue
6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between
this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html
.
