Does anyone know how to represent a tab when grepping? I know this is more of a scripting/programming question but no one seems to know on that forum and this one seems to get more traffic
Here are some things ive tried that didnt work:
grep '<tab>' file
grep '\t' file
grep '/t' file
grep '(actually hitting tab)' file
grep '[[:space:]]' file
grep '[[:tab:]]' file
etc etc.
I cant seem to find anything in the man pages at all (im running Redhat 7.1 if you are wondering) and the reason i need to know this is for more complicated reasons than the example listed (hehe, hopefully obviously). Does anyone have any idea how to represent a tab? 5 points to the first person who gets it! hehe, thanks!

--Morphman