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Hi jcoman777,<br />
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if you need to include a TAB char in your sed statement you should use the \t escape sequence in the place of the TAB.<br />
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hth<br />
leflon
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Hi jcoman777,

if you need to include a TAB char in your sed statement you should use the \t escape sequence in the place of the TAB.

hth
leflon

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I don't know what version of sed I have, but \t does not work. &nbsp;I found a couple sources online that warned that \t would not work.<br />
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ctrl-v then TAB does work! &nbsp;thanks!
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I don't know what version of sed I have, but \t does not work.  I found a couple sources online that warned that \t would not work.

ctrl-v then TAB does work!  thanks!

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I'm trying to figure out how to type an actual tab character on the Bash command line.<br />
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Bash used TAB as they key for an auto-completion function. &nbsp;<br />
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When I'm trying to write sed scripts on the command-line, I cannot get a tab character typed into the script.<br />
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I'd be willing to learn how to turn off auto-completion, but it would be better to still have auto-completion and also be able to type the tab character.<br />
<br />
thanks.
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I'm trying to figure out how to type an actual tab character on the Bash command line.

Bash used TAB as they key for an auto-completion function.  

When I'm trying to write sed scripts on the command-line, I cannot get a tab character typed into the script.

I'd be willing to learn how to turn off auto-completion, but it would be better to still have auto-completion and also be able to type the tab character.

thanks.

Bash: the tab key and auto-completion

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