How to use TAB as column separator in SQLCMD

Question

SQLCMD supports the -s parameter to specify the column separator, but I couldn\'t figure how how to represent the tab (CHAR(9)) character. I have tried the following but bo

Answer 1

A similar answer to one posted above, but it's simpler in a way that I think is significant.

1. Open your text editor
2. Press Tab
3. Highlight the chunk of whitespace (the tab) created
4. Copy and paste that into the spot in your SQL command

Even though this tab is represented as a wide chunk of whitespace, it is a single character.

The other answer had some unnecessary stuff about pasting the whole command with "" in it. I think that throws people off (it certainly threw me off).