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LESSECHO
Section: User Commands (1) Updated: Version 497: 06 Jul 2017 Index
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NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho
[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho
is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.
But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
character, which by default is a backslash.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
- -ex
-
Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.
If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments containing metachars
are surrounded by quotes instead.
- -ox
-
Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character,
which is used if the -e- option is specified.
- -cx
-
Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
- -pn
-
Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
- -dn
-
Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
- -mx
-
Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
By default, no characters are considered metachars.
- -nn
-
Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
- -fn
-
Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
- -a
-
Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.
The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
SEE ALSO
less(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf < schoepf@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
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