10-12-2008
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imas
Please do not close this thread if you do not know the answer.
Is this a home work question?
Assuming that it's not, what is the real world problem of your question?
Regards
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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 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 418: 02 Jan 2008 LESSECHO(1)