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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 metachar‐
       acter 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 characters 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 metacharacters are quoted.

SEE ALSO
       less(1)

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf AT debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).

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



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