I'm looking for a way to do some things concerning the tab-symbol.

1) I would like to find occurences of tab (\t) in a file.
   grep "\t" <file> doesn't work.

2) And I would like to use sed to replace these tabs with
   spaces.
   sed -e "s/\t/   /g" <file> doesn't work.

  If anybody know anything about this please answer the questions.

     Claus S.Jensen

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Use the <tab> instead of \t.
But... if it doesn't accept the <tab>, you have to write a file with:
         sed 's/        /bla/g' < $1 > $1.bla
It's tested on SVR3.2

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