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LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
lessecho - expand metacharacters
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
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. lessecho is
invoked internally by less, and is not intended to be used
directly by humans.
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.
less(1)
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⟩.
This page is part of the less (A file pager) project. Information
about the project can be found at
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