How to use the expand command: 2-Minute Linux Tips

The video tutorial explains the use of the expand command, which replaces tabs in text files with spaces. It covers the default behavior of the command, which replaces each tab with 1 to 8 spaces, and demonstrates how to use the -T option to replace each tab with a single space. The tutorial also shows how to compare the outputs of files processed with different expand settings using the ODBC command for octal dumps.

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