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LESSECHO(1) LESSECHO(1)
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NAME
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lessecho - expand metacharacters
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SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
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DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out-
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put. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
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OPTIONS
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A summary of options is included below.
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-ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
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-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
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-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
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-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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-ex Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
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-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte-
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ger.
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-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is
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that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
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SEE ALSO
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less(1)
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AUTHOR
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This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
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Version 416: 22 Nov 2007 LESSECHO(1)