sed replace literal TAB
I want to replace TAB s in stdout with semicolons, by running sed from the ZSH shell. I understand one can normally (in other shells?) use: somecommand | sed 's/\t/;/g' However, this doesn't work for me in ZSH-shell under FreeBSD. The \t doesn't match the tabulators. Why is this? I've also tried multiple backslashes (up to 5). This does work: somecommand | sed 's/[TAB]/;/g' , where [TAB] is an actual TAB -character, inserted by entering Ctrl-V followed by the TAB button on my keyboard. Use of zsh has nothing to do with it. The \t is a GNU extension to the regular expressions used in sed. On a