How to set 4 space tab in bash

Question

It look like set tabstop=4 in VIM, but I don\'t know how to set it in bash

for example:

echo -e \"1234567890\\t321\\n1\\t2\         


        

Answer 1

This works for me.

~/.bash_profile

# Set the tab stops
if [ -f ~/.bash_tab_stops ]; then
    . ~/.bash_tab_stops
fi

~/.bash_tab_stops

tab_width=4
terminal_width=$( stty size | awk '{print $2}' )

set_tab_stops() {
    local tab_width=$1 terminal_width=$2 tab_stops=''
    for (( i=1+$tab_width; $i<$terminal_width; i+=$tab_width )); do
        tab_stops+=$i','
    done
    tabs $tab_stops
}

set_tab_stops $tab_width $terminal_width

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