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LESSECHO

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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. lessecho is invoked internally by less , and is not intended to be used directly by humans.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

	-e x		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.
	-o x		Specifies " x ", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
	-c x		Specifies " x " to be the close quote character.
	-p n		Specifies " n " to be the open quote character, as an integer.
	-d n		Specifies " n " to be the close quote character, as an integer.
	-m x		Specifies " x " to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.
	-n n		Specifies " n " to be a metachar, as an integer.
	-f n		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).

Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.