bash annoyance

[Jerry Feldman {75562}]

Derek.Martin at fmc-na.com wrote:
> 
> Anyone know how to use a tab character in a bash command line?  I often run
> ad-hoc command line scripts like:
> 
> cat some_file | cut -d '<TAB>' -f 1 | some_other_pipe | etc
> 
> and I haven't figured out how to do this with bash, since tab causes bash
> to do a filename expansion.  Admittedly I haven't spent too much time
> reading the manpage, and I really don't want to.  :)
I don't have a linux machine handy right now, but try the escape sequence
control-QControl-I. 

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