How can I convert tabs to spaces in every file of a directory?

Question

How can I convert tabs to spaces in every file of a directory (possibly recursively)?

Also, is there a way of setting the number of spaces per tab?

Answer 1

You can use find with tabs-to-spaces package for this.

First, install tabs-to-spaces

npm install -g tabs-to-spaces

then, run this command from the root directory of your project;

find . -name '*' -exec t2s --spaces 2 {} \;

This will replace every tab character with 2 spaces in every file.