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<H1>DEBCONF-ESCAPE</H1>
Section: Debconf (1)<BR>Updated: 2019-08-03<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
debconf-escape - helper when working with debconf's escape capability
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
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debconf-escape -e &lt; unescaped-text
debconf-escape -u &lt; escaped-text
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
When debconf has the 'escape' capability set, it will expect commands
you send it to have backslashes and newlines escaped (as <TT>&quot;\\&quot;</TT> and <TT>&quot;\n&quot;</TT>
respectively) and will in turn escape backslashes and newlines in its
replies. This can be used, for example, to substitute multi-line strings
into templates, or to get multi-line extended descriptions reliably
using <TT>&quot;METAGET&quot;</TT>.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?7+debconf-devel">debconf-devel</A></B>(7)
(available in the debconf-doc package)
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
Colin Watson &lt;<A HREF="mailto:cjwatson@debian.org">cjwatson@debian.org</A>&gt;
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