lessecho1

Usage

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.

-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.

-ox

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

-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. By default, no characters are considered metachars.

-nn

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

-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 metacharacters are quoted.