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<H1>LESSECHO</H1>
Section: User Commands (1)<BR>Updated: Version 551: 11 Jun 2019<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
lessecho - expand metacharacters
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
<B>lessecho</B>
<I>[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...</I>
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<I>lessecho</I>
is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.
But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an &quot;escape&quot;
character, which by default is a backslash.
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
A summary of options is included below.
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<DT id="1"><B>-ex</B>
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Specifies &quot;x&quot;, rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.
If x is &quot;-&quot;, no escape char is used and arguments containing metachars
are surrounded by quotes instead.
<DT id="2"><B>-ox</B>
<DD>
Specifies &quot;x&quot;, rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character,
which is used if the -e- option is specified.
<DT id="3"><B>-cx</B>
<DD>
Specifies &quot;x&quot; to be the close quote character.
<DT id="4"><B>-pn</B>
<DD>
Specifies &quot;n&quot; to be the open quote character, as an integer.
<DT id="5"><B>-dn</B>
<DD>
Specifies &quot;n&quot; to be the close quote character, as an integer.
<DT id="6"><B>-mx</B>
<DD>
Specifies &quot;x&quot; to be a metachar.
By default, no characters are considered metachars.
<DT id="7"><B>-nn</B>
<DD>
Specifies &quot;n&quot; to be a metachar, as an integer.
<DT id="8"><B>-fn</B>
<DD>
Specifies &quot;n&quot; to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
<DT id="9"><B>-a</B>
<DD>
Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.
The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+less">less</A>(1)
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf &lt;<A HREF="mailto:schoepf@debian.org">schoepf@debian.org</A>&gt;,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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