unexpand(1)

💅 unexpand — the other tab converter, bestie

okay so real talk: this is unexpand(1) from the General Commands Manual section, and she is the ✨glow-up✨ sibling of expand. Same energy, opposite direction. Let's get into it. 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

unexpand — take the blanks in each FILE, turn them into tabs, and yeet the result to standard output. No FILE? Or FILE is -? Then bestie, we're reading from standard input. 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

unexpand [-a|--all] [-f|--first-only] [-t|--tabs] [-U|--no-utf8]
[-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So basically: convert blanks in each FILE to tabs, write it all to standard output. That's the whole vibe. 🫶

With no FILE, or when FILE is literally just -, we read from standard input. Iconic, lowkey, no notes. 💅

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -a, --all — convert all the blanks, not just the initial ones. go big or go home fr fr 🔥
• -f, --first-only — only convert the leading sequences of blanks. and yes, this overrides -a, so don't be out here passing both and expecting a plot twist. 😭
• -t, --tabs <N, LIST> — use a comma separated LIST of tab positions, or have tabs N characters apart instead of 8. oh and heads up: this one enables -a as a lil side effect. periodt.
• -U, --no-utf8 — interpret the input file as 8-bit ASCII rather than UTF-8. it's giving "we're not doing unicode today". 🙈
• -h, --help — print help. your bestie when you're lost. 🌈
• -V, --version — print version. slay, now you know what you're working with. ⭐

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💜 VERSION 💜

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

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and that's the whole page, babe — unexpand (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0, manual page unexpand(1). go forth and convert those blanks, you absolute main character. 💖✨🎀