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Nov 17, 2017 at 15:24 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 3.0
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Nov 17, 2017 at 15:23 vote accept Radvansky
Nov 17, 2017 at 15:10 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 3.0
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Nov 17, 2017 at 14:52 comment added Stéphane Chazelas @Radvansky, as seen in the comment, it restores the default tab stops. You may also want to add that tabs -8 to a SIGINT/TERM trap to make sure the tabs are restored if that script is interrupted. It's one way in that it's less "clean": it affects the behaviour of the terminal. That can also cause problems if the script is suspended for instance. It would not work after stty -tabs (but people would only do that on terminals that don't support tabs in the first place anyway).
Nov 17, 2017 at 14:44 comment added Radvansky Both @thor answer and yours produce the result I was after. I was already commenting to ask how to implement the output of the ping command with your method when you edited the answer. As it is, it does seem a cleaner approach. Do you agree? By the way, what exactly does the tabs -8 do?
Nov 17, 2017 at 14:39 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 3.0
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Nov 17, 2017 at 14:22 history answered Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 3.0