| LESSECHO(1) | General Commands Manual | 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.
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-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.
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-ox
- 
Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
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-cx
- 
Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
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-pn
- 
Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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-dn
- 
Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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-mx
- 
Specifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.
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-nn
- 
Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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-fn
- 
Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
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-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.