# phpman > man > lessecho(1)

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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 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
              "-",  no  escape  char  is  used  and arguments containing metachars are surrounded by
              quotes instead.

### -ox
              if the -e- option is specified.

### -cx

### -pn

### -dn

### -mx

### -nn

### -fn

### -a
              containing metacharacters are quoted.

## SEE ALSO
       [**less**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/less/1/markdown)

## 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>.



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