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1.TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 563: 13 Jun 2020"
1.TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 581.2: 28 Apr 2021"
2.SH NAME
3lessecho \- expand metacharacters
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B lessecho
6.I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ..."
7.SH "DESCRIPTION"
8.I lessecho
9is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.

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14.TP
15.B \-ex
16Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.
17If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments containing metachars
18are surrounded by quotes instead.
19.TP
20.B \-ox
21Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character,
2.SH NAME
3lessecho \- expand metacharacters
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.B lessecho
6.I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ..."
7.SH "DESCRIPTION"
8.I lessecho
9is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.

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14.TP
15.B \-ex
16Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.
17If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments containing metachars
18are surrounded by quotes instead.
19.TP
20.B \-ox
21Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character,
22which is used if the -e- option is specified.
22which is used if the \-e- option is specified.
23.TP
24.B \-cx
25Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
26.TP
27.B \-pn
28Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
29.TP
30.B \-dn

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37.B \-nn
38Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
39.TP
40.B \-fn
41Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
42.TP
43.B \-a
44Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.
23.TP
24.B \-cx
25Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
26.TP
27.B \-pn
28Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
29.TP
30.B \-dn

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37.B \-nn
38Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
39.TP
40.B \-fn
41Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
42.TP
43.B \-a
44Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.
45The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
45The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted.
46.SH "SEE ALSO"
47.BR less (1)
48.SH AUTHOR
49This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
50for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
51.PP
46.SH "SEE ALSO"
47.BR less (1)
48.SH AUTHOR
49This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
50for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
51.PP
52Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
52Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.