Manual: lessecho

LESSECHO(1)					   General Commands Manual					 LESSECHO(1)

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 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.

SEE ALSO
       less(1)

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf , for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used
       by others).

       Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.

						  Version 668: 06 Oct 2024					 LESSECHO(1)