Convert spaces => tabs in multiple files

TheGrudge · 2009-04-20 11:11:55

I try to clean up some source code and convert all tabs with spaces (C++).
But I don't want to do this manually for sure.

So I tried to use the expand command like this:

$>   for i in $(find -type f -iname "*.cpp"); do expand -t4 $i > $i; done

This seems to work at the first look, but checking with

git status

and looking into the actual files, they are all empty now. Any idea how to recursively convert tabs to spaces?

Allan · 2009-04-20 11:17:26

Maybe....

sed -i "s#\t#    #g" *.cpp

Procyon · 2009-04-20 11:18:27

expand -t4 $i > $i.back; mv $i.back $i;

TheGrudge · 2009-04-20 11:30:24

Procyon wrote:

expand -t4 $i > $i.back; mv $i.back $i;

Oh man this was too easy :-D It worked, thank you...

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