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LESSECHO

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Version 444: 09 Jun 2011
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NAME

lessecho - expand metacharacters

lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...

lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.

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.

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.

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