lessecho
Manual Reference Pages - LESSECHO (1)
NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
CONTENTS
Synopsis
Description
Options
See Also
Author
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 argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
OPTIONS
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. |
SEE ALSO
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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