基本上有两种解决方法:

(Recommended) Use regular expression syntax supported by grep(1). Modern grep(1) supports two forms of POSIX 1003.2 regex syntax: basic (obsolete) REs, and modern REs. Syntax is described in details on re_format(7) and regex(7) man pages which are part of BSD and Linux systems respectively. The GNU grep(1) also supports Perl-compatible REs as provided by the pcre(3) library. In regex language the tab symbol is usually encoded by \t atom. The atom is supported by BSD extended regular expressions (egrep, grep -E on BSD compatible system), as well as Perl-compatible REs (pcregrep, GNU grep -P). Both basic regular expressions and Linux extended REs apparently have no support for the \t. Please consult UNIX utility man page to know which regex language it supports (hence the difference between sed(1), awk(1), and pcregrep(1) regular expressions). Therefore, on Linux: $ grep -P '\t' FILE ... On BSD alike system: $ egrep '\t' FILE ... $ grep -E '\t' FILE ... Pass the tab character into pattern. This is straightforward when you edit a script file: # no tabs for Python please! grep -q ' ' *.py && exit 1 However, when working in an interactive shell you may need to rely on shell and terminal capabilities to type the proper symbol into the line. On most terminals this can be done through Ctrl+V key combination which instructs terminal to treat the next input character literally (the V is for "verbatim"): $ grep '<Ctrl>+<V><TAB>' FILE ... Some shells may offer advanced support for command typesetting. Such, in bash(1) words of the form $'string' are treated specially: bash$ grep $'\t' FILE ... Please note though, while being nice in a command line this may produce compatibility issues when the script will be moved to another platform. Also, be careful with quotes when using the specials, please consult bash(1) for details. For Bourne shell (and not only) the same behaviour may be emulated using command substitution augmented by printf(1) to construct proper regex: $ grep "`printf '\t'`" FILE ...

一个好的选择是使用sed。

sed -n '/\t/p' file

示例(工作在bash, sh, ksh, csh，..):

[~]$ cat testfile
12 3
1 4 abc
xa      c
        a       c\2
1 23

[~]$ sed -n '/\t/p' testfile 
xa      c
        a       c\2
[~]$ sed -n '/\ta\t/p' testfile
        a       c\2

(以下答案已根据评论中的建议进行了编辑。谢谢大家)

一种方法是(这是Bash)

grep -P '\t'

-P将打开Perl正则表达式，因此\t将工作。

正如用户unwind所说，它可能是特定于GNU grep的。另一种方法是在shell、编辑器或终端允许的情况下插入一个制表符。

+1方式，工作在ksh，破折号等:使用printf插入制表符:

grep "$(printf 'BEGIN\tEND')" testfile.txt

多次查找空格[[:space:]]*

grep[:太空 :]]*'.''.'

会发现这样的东西:

“账单”..

这些是单引号(')，而不是双引号(")。这就是在grep中进行连接的方法。= -)

在其他答案中给出的$'\t'符号是特定于shell的——它似乎在bash和zsh中工作，但不是通用的。

注意:下面是针对fish shell的，在bash中不起作用:

在fish shell中，可以使用不带引号的\t，例如:

grep \t foo.txt

或者可以使用十六进制或unicode符号，例如:

grep \X09 foo.txt
grep \U0009 foo.txt

(这些符号对于更深奥的字符很有用)

因为这些值必须是不加引号的，所以可以将加引号的值和不加引号的值进行拼接:

grep "foo"\t"bar"