debian man page for debconf-escape

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>

								    2012-09-10							 DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)