lessecho1
Expand metacharacters
Usage
lessecho [-a]
[-o
x]
[-c
x]
[-p
n]
[-d
n]
[-m
x]
[-n
n]
[-e
x]
file ...
lessecho --version
Overview
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.
Options
A summary of options is included below.
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-ex -
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.
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-ox -
Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
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-cx -
Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
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-pn -
Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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-dn -
Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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-mx -
Specifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.
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-nn -
Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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-fn -
Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
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-a -
Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted.
Releases
16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 12 times.
-a since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-cx since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-dn since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-ex since Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-fn since Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-mx since Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-nn since Debian 4.0 (Etch);
-ox since Debian 2.2 (Potato);
-pn since Debian 2.2 (Potato).