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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Grep for tab character
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:30:37 -0500
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> Because that starts up auto-complete. In other words, I don't know
> how to insert a literal tab into a command line.

<control-V><tab>

> But I do not like that idea for scripts either - it can be difficult
> to visually discriminate a tab from a space character, which can too
> easily lead to errors.

Then try

sed -n '/\t/p' file

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