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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 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.

-e/x/

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.

-o/x/

Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.

-c/x/

Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.

-p/n/

Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

-d/n/

Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.

-m/x/

Specifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.

-n/n/

Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.

-f/n/

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.

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This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.