src/lessecho.man

LESSECHO(1) 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 out-
put. 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 inte-
ger.
 
-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.
 
 
 
Version 429: 11 Apr 2009 LESSECHO(1)