Manual: debconf-escape

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NAME
       debconf-escape - helper when working with debconf's escape capability

SYNOPSIS
	debconf-escape -e < unescaped-text
	debconf-escape -u < escaped-text

DESCRIPTION
       When debconf has the 'escape' capability set, it will expect commands you send it to have backslashes and newlines
       escaped (as "\\" and "\n" respectively) and will in turn escape backslashes and newlines in its replies. This can be
       used, for example, to substitute multi-line strings into templates, or to get multi-line extended descriptions
       reliably using "METAGET".

SEE ALSO
       debconf-devel(7) (available in the debconf-doc package)

AUTHOR
       Colin Watson 

							 2026-02-16					   DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)