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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 argument containing spaces is
enclosed in quotes.
A summary of options is included below.
- -ox
- Specifies
"x" to be the open quote character.
- -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.
- -nn
- Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
- -ex
- Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
- -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 spaces are
quoted.
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This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf
<schoepf@debian.org>, 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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