Re: expand tabs in a shell

[Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@fit-zones.NO-SPAM.com>]

David Rasmussen wrote:
> Joakim Hove wrote:
>> how about redirection: 
>> expand file > tmp_file ; mv tmp_file file
> 
> Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem with batch runs. I can't do
> 
> expand *.cpp
> 
> which would have been very easy.

#!/bin/zsh
#or choose a sufficiently powerful shell, such as bash

for file in *.cpp
do
  expand $file > tmp_file
  mv tmp_file $file
done

#See also nntp://comp.unix.shell