LESSECHO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Version 679: 28 May 2025
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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 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 doubl-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -- 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.

 

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).

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