1161475SdelphijLESSECHO(1) LESSECHO(1) 2161475Sdelphij 3161475Sdelphij 4161475Sdelphij 5170256Sdelphij[1mNAME[0m 6161475Sdelphij lessecho - expand metacharacters 7161475Sdelphij 8170256Sdelphij[1mSYNOPSIS[0m 9170256Sdelphij [1mlessecho [4m[22m[-ox][24m [4m[-cx][24m [4m[-pn][24m [4m[-dn][24m [4m[-mx][24m [4m[-nn][24m [4m[-ex][24m [4m[-a][24m [4mfile[24m [4m...[0m 10161475Sdelphij 11170256Sdelphij[1mDESCRIPTION[0m 12170256Sdelphij [4mlessecho[24m is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out- 13240121Sdelphij put. But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape" 14240121Sdelphij character, which by default is a backslash. 15161475Sdelphij 16170256Sdelphij[1mOPTIONS[0m 17161475Sdelphij A summary of options is included below. 18161475Sdelphij 19240121Sdelphij [1m-ex [22mSpecifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for 20240121Sdelphij metachars. If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments 21240121Sdelphij containing metachars are surrounded by quotes instead. 22161475Sdelphij 23240121Sdelphij [1m-ox [22mSpecifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote 24240121Sdelphij character, which is used if the -e- option is specified. 25240121Sdelphij 26170256Sdelphij [1m-cx [22mSpecifies "x" to be the close quote character. 27161475Sdelphij 28170256Sdelphij [1m-pn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. 29161475Sdelphij 30170256Sdelphij [1m-dn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. 31161475Sdelphij 32240121Sdelphij [1m-mx [22mSpecifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are 33240121Sdelphij considered metachars. 34161475Sdelphij 35170256Sdelphij [1m-nn [22mSpecifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer. 36161475Sdelphij 37240121Sdelphij [1m-fn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte- 38161475Sdelphij ger. 39161475Sdelphij 40240121Sdelphij [1m-a [22mSpecifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is 41240121Sdelphij that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted 42161475Sdelphij 43170256Sdelphij[1mSEE ALSO[0m 44161475Sdelphij less(1) 45161475Sdelphij 46170256Sdelphij[1mAUTHOR[0m 47240121Sdelphij This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, 48161475Sdelphij for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 49161475Sdelphij 50161475Sdelphij Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org. 51161475Sdelphij 52161475Sdelphij 53161475Sdelphij 54251154Sdelphij Version 458: 04 Apr 2013 LESSECHO(1) 55