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1145479SmpLESSECHO(1) LESSECHO(1) 259243Sobrien 359243Sobrien 459243Sobrien 559243Sobrien[1mNAME[0m 659243Sobrien lessecho - expand metacharacters 759243Sobrien 859243Sobrien[1mSYNOPSIS[0m 959243Sobrien [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 1059243Sobrien 1159243Sobrien[1mDESCRIPTION[0m 1259243Sobrien [4mlessecho[24m is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out- 1359243Sobrien put. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes. 1459243Sobrien 1559243Sobrien[1mOPTIONS[0m 1659243Sobrien A summary of options is included below. 17100616Smp 1859243Sobrien [1m-ox [22mSpecifies "x" to be the open quote character. 1959243Sobrien 2059243Sobrien [1m-cx [22mSpecifies "x" to be the close quote character. 2159243Sobrien 2259243Sobrien [1m-pn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. 2359243Sobrien 2459243Sobrien [1m-dn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. 2559243Sobrien 2659243Sobrien [1m-mx [22mSpecifies "x" to be a metachar. 2759243Sobrien 2859243Sobrien [1m-nn [22mSpecifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer. 2959243Sobrien 3059243Sobrien [1m-ex [22mSpecifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars. 3159243Sobrien 3259243Sobrien [1m-fn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte- 3359243Sobrien ger. 3459243Sobrien 35145479Smp [1m-a [22mSpecifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is 3659243Sobrien that only arguments containing spaces are quoted. 3759243Sobrien 38100616Smp[1mSEE ALSO[0m 3959243Sobrien less(1) 4059243Sobrien 4159243Sobrien[1mAUTHOR[0m 4259243Sobrien This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, 4359243Sobrien for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 4459243Sobrien 4559243Sobrien Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org. 4659243Sobrien 4759243Sobrien 4859243Sobrien 4959243Sobrien Version 416: 22 Nov 2007 LESSECHO(1) 5059243Sobrien