[Nottingham] how does one grep for tabs?

Roger Light rogerlight at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 19:41:36 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!

This works for me:

grep "\t" *

Roger



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