lessecho (1) Linux Manual Page
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.
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 <schoepf [at] debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.