Re: Outputting tabs with sed

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

In message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.970806230711.374B-100000@localhost>, writes:
  >
  > How can I output tabs with sed?
  >
  > I need something like: `s/<insert tab here>/\t'
 
In theory, sed -e 's/<insert tab here>/	/'
                                       ^
                                       |
                                       tab char

should work, but it doesn't. I think that bash gets in the way when you
do it from the command line.

However, it works if you put the sed instruction in a file and use

   sed -f sedfile


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