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.TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 643: 20 Jul 2023"
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.SH NAME
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lessecho \- expand metacharacters
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B lessecho
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.I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ..."
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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.B lessecho
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is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.
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But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
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character, which by default is a backslash.
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.SH OPTIONS
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A summary of options is included below.
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.TP
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.B \-e\fIx\fP
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Specifies "\fIx\fP", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.
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If \fIx\fP is "-", no escape char is used and arguments containing metachars
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are surrounded by quotes instead.
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.TP
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.B \-o\fIx\fP
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Specifies "\fIx\fP", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character,
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which is used if the \-e- option is specified.
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.TP
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.B \-c\fIx\fP
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Specifies "\fIx\fP" to be the close quote character.
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.B \-p\fIn\fP
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Specifies "\fIn\fP" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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.B \-d\fIn\fP
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Specifies "\fIn\fP" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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.B \-m\fIx\fP
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Specifies "\fIx\fP" to be a metachar.
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By default, no characters are considered metachars.
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.B \-n\fIn\fP
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Specifies "\fIn\fP" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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.B \-f\fIn\fP
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Specifies "\fIn\fP" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
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.TP
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.B \-a
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Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.
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The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR less (1)
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.SH AUTHOR
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This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
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for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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.PP
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Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.
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