lessecho - expand metacharacters
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a]
file ...
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.
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.
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf
<schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used
by others).
Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.