tab, untab

PURPOSE

     Changes spaces into tabs or tabs into spaces.

SYNOPSIS
     tab [ -e ] [ file ... ]

     untab [ file ... ]


DESCRIPTION

     The tab command reads  files (standard input by default),
     replaces spaces in the input with tab characters wherever
     it  can eliminate  one  or more  spaces.   It writes  the
     resulting file back to file or, if the input was standard
     input,  to standard  output.   tab assumes  that the  tab
     stops are  set every  eight columns starting  with column
     nine.

     The untab command reads files or standard input, replaces
     tabs in the  input with space characters  and writes back
     to the original file or to standard output.

FLAG

     -e Replaces only those spaces at  the beginning of a line
        up to the first nonspace character.

RELATED INFORMATION

     The following command:  "newform."