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LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
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NAME
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lessecho - expand metacharacters
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SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
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DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out-
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put. But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
character, which by default is a backslash.
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OPTIONS
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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.
-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 inte-
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ger.
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-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is
that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
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SEE ALSO
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less(1)
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AUTHOR
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This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
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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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Version 530: 05 Dec 2017 LESSECHO(1)