[Nottingham] how does one grep for tabs?

Michael Erskine msemtd at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jan 31 16:33:18 GMT 2006


I'm searching for files that contain tab characters (ASCII 0x09, Ctrl-I -- so 
that I can eradicate them with expand(1)! ) but I can't use interactive bash 
to grep(1) for them because it won't let me type a tab! I found a roundabout 
way by avoiding the use of interactive bash but I'm interested in how others 
might solve this conundrum.

Regards,
Michael Erskine.

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