lessecho(1)

LESSECHO(1)              USER COMMANDS                LESSECHO(1)

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 charac-
          ters 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 metacharac-
          ters 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).

              Last change: Version 530: 05 Dec 2017             1

LESSECHO(1)              USER COMMANDS                LESSECHO(1)

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              Last change: Version 530: 05 Dec 2017             2