[Nottingham] how does one grep for tabs?

[Alex Tibbles]

I would have thought that it should accept \t for an
escaped tab, but can't get it to work, contrary to my
reading of regex(3).

Alex

--- Michael Erskine <msemtd at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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> remote future.
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