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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:16:10+00:00

As being quite a newbie in linux, I have the follwing question. I have

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As being quite a newbie in linux, I have the follwing question. I have list of files (this time resulting from svn status) and i want to create a script to loop them all and replace tabs with 4 spaces.

So I want from 

.... D      HTML/templates/t_bla.tpl M      HTML/templates/t_list_markt.tpl M      HTML/templates/t_vip.tpl M      HTML/templates/upsell.tpl M      HTML/templates/t_warranty.tpl M      HTML/templates/top.tpl A  +   HTML/templates/t_r1.tpl ....

to something like

for i in <files>; expand -t4;do cp $i /tmp/x;expand -t4 /tmp/x > $i;done;

but I dont know how to do that…

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  1. You can use this command:

    svn st | cut -c8- | xargs ls

    This will cut the first 8 characters leaving only a list of file names, without Subversion flags. You can also add grep before cut to filter only some type of changes, like /^M/. xargs will pass the list of files as arguments to a given command (ls in this case).

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