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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 output.	But any argument containing  metacharacters  specified	by
       options below is quoted.

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 436: 07 Jul 2009						       LESSECHO(1)

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