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| a9adbba3 | 1 | .TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 436: 07 Jul 2009" |
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2 | .SH NAME |
| 3 | lessecho \- expand metacharacters | |
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 5 | .B lessecho | |
| 6 | .I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ..." | |
| 7 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" | |
| 8 | .I lessecho | |
| 9 | is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. | |
| 10 | But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes. | |
| 11 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 12 | A summary of options is included below. | |
| 13 | .TP | |
| 14 | .B \-ox | |
| 15 | Specifies "x" to be the open quote character. | |
| 16 | .TP | |
| 17 | .B \-cx | |
| 18 | Specifies "x" to be the close quote character. | |
| 19 | .TP | |
| 20 | .B \-pn | |
| 21 | Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. | |
| 22 | .TP | |
| 23 | .B \-dn | |
| 24 | Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. | |
| 25 | .TP | |
| 26 | .B \-mx | |
| 27 | Specifies "x" to be a metachar. | |
| 28 | .TP | |
| 29 | .B \-nn | |
| 30 | Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer. | |
| 31 | .TP | |
| 32 | .B \-ex | |
| 33 | Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars. | |
| 34 | .TP | |
| 35 | .B \-fn | |
| 36 | Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer. | |
| 37 | .TP | |
| 38 | .B \-a | |
| 39 | Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. | |
| 40 | The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted. | |
| 41 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 42 | less(1) | |
| 43 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 44 | This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, | |
| 45 | for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). | |
| 46 | .PP | |
| 47 | Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org. |