v7 man page for debconf-escape

Query: debconf-escape

OS: v7

Section: 1

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DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)						      Debconf							 DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)

NAME
debconf-escape - helper when working with debconf's escape capability SYNOPSIS
debconf-escape -e < unescaped-text debconf-escape -u < escaped-text DESCRIPTION
When debconf has the 'escape' capability set, it will expect commands you send it to have backslashes and newlines escaped (as "\" and " " respectively) and will in turn escape backslashes and newlines in its replies. This can be used, for example, to substitute multi-line strings into templates, or to get multi-line extended descriptions reliably using "METAGET". SEE ALSO
debconf-devel(7) (available in the debconf-doc package) AUTHOR
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> 2018-02-28 DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)
Related Man Pages
debconf(1) - debian
debconf(1) - v7
debconf(1) - posix
debconf(1) - freebsd
debconf(1) - hpux
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