freebsd-nq/contrib/less/lessecho.nro
Xin LI f0be0a1f8c Update less to v436. This is considered as a bugfix release from vendor.
Major changes from v429:
 * Don't pass "-" to non-pipe LESSOPEN unless it starts with "-".
 * Allow a fraction as the argument to the -# (--shift) option.
 * Fix highlight bug when underlined/overstruck text matches at end of line.
 * Fix non-regex searches with ctrl-R.

Approved by:	re (kensmith, kib)
2009-07-29 09:20:32 +00:00

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.TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 436: 07 Jul 2009"
.SH NAME
lessecho \- expand metacharacters
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lessecho
.I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ..."
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.I lessecho
is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.
But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-ox
Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
.TP
.B \-cx
Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
.TP
.B \-pn
Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
.TP
.B \-dn
Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
.TP
.B \-mx
Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
.TP
.B \-nn
Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
.TP
.B \-ex
Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
.TP
.B \-fn
Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
.TP
.B \-a
Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.
The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
less(1)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
.PP
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.