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NAME

6       debconf-escape - helper when working with debconf's escape capability
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SYNOPSIS

9        debconf-escape -e < unescaped-text
10        debconf-escape -u < escaped-text
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DESCRIPTION

13       When debconf has the 'escape' capability set, it will expect commands
14       you send it to have backslashes and newlines escaped (as "\\" and "\n"
15       respectively) and will in turn escape backslashes and newlines in its
16       replies. This can be used, for example, to substitute multi-line
17       strings into templates, or to get multi-line extended descriptions
18       reliably using "METAGET".
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SEE ALSO

21       debconf-devel(7) (available in the debconf-doc package)
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AUTHOR

24       Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
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