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1LESSECHO(1)                 General Commands Manual                LESSECHO(1)
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5NAME
6       lessecho - expand metacharacters
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8SYNOPSIS
9       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
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11DESCRIPTION
12       lessecho  is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out‐
13       put.  But any metacharacter in the output is preceded  by  an  "escape"
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16OPTIONS
17       A summary of options is included below.
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19       -ex    Specifies  "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for
20              metachars.  If x is "-", no escape char is  used  and  arguments
21              containing metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.
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23       -ox    Specifies  "x",  rather  than double-quote, to be the open quote
24              character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
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26       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
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28       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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32       -mx    Specifies "x" to be a metachar.  By default, no  characters  are
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35       -nn    Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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37       -fn    Specifies  "n"  to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte‐
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40       -a     Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.  The  default  is
41              that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted.
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43SEE ALSO
44       less(1)
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46AUTHOR
47       This  manual  page  was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
48       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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50       Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.
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