On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:46:37 GMT
alister  wrote:

> this is nothing to do with cat as shuch it is the default unix tab
> specification
> it can be changed in many ways using the tabs command
>
> for example
>
> tabs +4 will set your tabs to every 4th column.

 Provided the terminal (usually virtual these days) supports setting
tabs otherwise you just get this:

$ tabs +4
tabs: terminal cannot set tabs

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