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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- 13161475Sdelphij put. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes. 14161475Sdelphij 15170256Sdelphij[1mOPTIONS[0m 16161475Sdelphij A summary of options is included below. 17161475Sdelphij 18170256Sdelphij [1m-ox [22mSpecifies "x" to be the open quote character. 19161475Sdelphij 20170256Sdelphij [1m-cx [22mSpecifies "x" to be the close quote character. 21161475Sdelphij 22170256Sdelphij [1m-pn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. 23161475Sdelphij 24170256Sdelphij [1m-dn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. 25161475Sdelphij 26170256Sdelphij [1m-mx [22mSpecifies "x" to be a metachar. 27161475Sdelphij 28170256Sdelphij [1m-nn [22mSpecifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer. 29161475Sdelphij 30170256Sdelphij [1m-ex [22mSpecifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars. 31161475Sdelphij 32170256Sdelphij [1m-fn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte- 33161475Sdelphij ger. 34161475Sdelphij 35170256Sdelphij [1m-a [22mSpecifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is 36161475Sdelphij that only arguments containing spaces are quoted. 37161475Sdelphij 38170256Sdelphij[1mSEE ALSO[0m 39161475Sdelphij less(1) 40161475Sdelphij 41170256Sdelphij[1mAUTHOR[0m 42161475Sdelphij This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, 43161475Sdelphij for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 44161475Sdelphij 45161475Sdelphij Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org. 46161475Sdelphij 47161475Sdelphij 48161475Sdelphij 49170256Sdelphij Version 403: 25 May 2007 LESSECHO(1) 50