lessecho - expand metacharacters
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual 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 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 inte- ger. -a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | text/less | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Volatile | +---------------+------------------+ 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. NOTES This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://www.greenwoodsoft- ware.com/less/less-458.tar.gz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/. Version 458: 04 Apr 2013 LESSECHO(1)