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[4mLESSECHO[24m(1) General Commands Manual [4mLESSECHO[24m(1)
[1mNAME[0m
lessecho - expand metacharacters
[1mSYNOPSIS[0m
[1mlessecho [4m[22m[‐ox][24m [4m[‐cx][24m [4m[‐pn][24m [4m[‐dn][24m [4m[‐mx][24m [4m[‐nn][24m [4m[‐ex][24m [4m[‐a][24m [4mfile[24m [4m...[0m
[1mDESCRIPTION[0m
[1mlessecho [22mis a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out‐
put. But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
character, which by default is a backslash. [1mlessecho [22mis invoked inter‐
nally by [1mless[22m, and is not intended to be used directly by humans.
[1mOPTIONS[0m
A summary of options is included below.
[1m-e[4m[22mx[24m Specifies "[4mx[24m", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for
metachars. If [4mx[24m is "‐", no escape char is used and arguments
containing metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.
[1m-o[4m[22mx[24m Specifies "[4mx[24m", rather than double‐quote, to be the open quote
character, which is used if the -e‐ option is specified.
[1m-c[4m[22mx[24m Specifies "[4mx[24m" to be the close quote character.
[1m-p[4m[22mn[24m Specifies "[4mn[24m" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
[1m-d[4m[22mn[24m Specifies "[4mn[24m" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
[1m-m[4m[22mx[24m Specifies "[4mx[24m" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are
considered metachars.
[1m-n[4m[22mn[24m Specifies "[4mn[24m" to be a metachar, as an integer.
[1m-f[4m[22mn[24m Specifies "[4mn[24m" to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte‐
ger.
[1m-a [22mSpecifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is
that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted.
[1mSEE ALSO[0m
[1mless[22m(1)
[1mAUTHOR[0m
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.
Version 668: 06 Oct 2024 [4mLESSECHO[24m(1)
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