NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx]
[-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos
its arguments on standard output. But any argument containing
spaces is enclosed in quotes.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
- -ox
- Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
- -cx
- Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
- -pn
- Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
- -dn
- Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
- -mx
- Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
- -nn
- Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
- -ex
- Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
- -fn
- 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 spaces are quoted.
SEE ALSO
less(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf
<schoepf@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.