[SunHELP] vi question

[Michael Conlen]

:%s/<tab>/<space>/g

The <tab> and <space> should be a tab and a space, not the text.

To count you could cat the file to tr, remove everything but space, tab and
enter and do a wc -c on the result.

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Michael Conlen
Obfuscated Networking
meconlen at obfuscated.net


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> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Shahid Shahzad-W5106C
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:52 PM
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> Subject: [SunHELP] vi question
>
>
> Hi,
> Does anyone know how to
> 1) Replace tabs with spaces in a file using vi editor.
> 2) How to find the Number of tabs, spaces and returns in a file using vi.
>
> Thanks,
> SS
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