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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with escape in code Post 303002205 by RudiC on Saturday 19th of August 2017 11:30:19 AM
Old 08-19-2017
Please become accustomed to provide decent context info of your problem.

It is always helpful to support a request with system info like OS and shell, related environment (variables, options), preferred tools, adequate (representative) sample input and desired output data and the logics connecting the two, and, if existent, system (error) messages verbatim, to avoid ambiguities and keep people from guessing.
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

texinfo

TEXINFO(5)                                                      File Formats Manual                                                     TEXINFO(5)

NAME

       texinfo - software documentation system

DESCRIPTION

       Texinfo  is  a  documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both online information and printed output.  It is primarily
       designed for writing software manuals.

       For a full description of the Texinfo language and associated tools, please see the Texinfo  manual  (written  in  Texinfo  itself).   Most
       likely, running this command from your shell:
       info texinfo
       or this key sequence from inside Emacs:
       M-x info RET m texinfo RET
       will get you there.

AVAILABILITY

       ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/
       or any GNU mirror site.

REPORTING BUGS

       Please send bug reports to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, general questions and discussion to help-texinfo@gnu.org.

SEE ALSO

       info(1), install-info(1), makeinfo(1), texi2dvi(1), texindex(1).
       emacs(1), tex(1).
       info(5).

FSF                                                                 GNU Texinfo                                                         TEXINFO(5)
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