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 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
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).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.