1LESSECHO(1)                 General Commands Manual                LESSECHO(1)
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NAME

6       lessecho - expand metacharacters
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SYNOPSIS

9       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
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DESCRIPTION

12       lessecho  is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out‐
13       put.  But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
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OPTIONS

16       A summary of options is included below.
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18       -ox    Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
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20       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
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22       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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24       -dn    Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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26       -mx    Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
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28       -nn    Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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30       -ex    Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
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32       -fn    Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as  an  inte‐
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35       -a     Specifies  that  all arguments are to be quoted.  The default is
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SEE ALSO

39       less(1)
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AUTHOR

42       This manual page was written by  Thomas  Schoepf  <schoepf@debian.org>,
43       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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45       Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
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49                           Version 436: 07 Jul 2009                LESSECHO(1)