man/cat1/lessecho.1.txt

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 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.
 
 
 
                    Version 394: 03 Dec 2005 LESSECHO(1)