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LESSECHO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Version 497: 06 Jul 2017
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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

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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