How to insert a tab character into Putty for Linux
If you’re like me, you’ve noticed that if you’re trying to grep for a tab character, the following won’t work:
grep "\t" file.txt |
The solution is to use a literal tab character, but it’s not quite so simple. You can’t insert a tab character just by hitting the tab button or by pasting one in. You need to hit Ctrl+V first:
So to type a tab in the putty console:
- Ctrl+V
- [TAB] character