1LESSECHO(1)                                                        LESSECHO(1)
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6       lessecho - expand metacharacters
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8[1mSYNOPSIS[0m
9       [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
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11[1mDESCRIPTION[0m
12       [4mlessecho[24m  is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out-
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15[1mOPTIONS[0m
16       A summary of options is included below.
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18       [1m-ox    [22mSpecifies "x" to be the open quote character.
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20       [1m-cx    [22mSpecifies "x" to be the close quote character.
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22       [1m-pn    [22mSpecifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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24       [1m-dn    [22mSpecifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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26       [1m-mx    [22mSpecifies "x" to be a metachar.
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28       [1m-nn    [22mSpecifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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30       [1m-ex    [22mSpecifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
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32       [1m-fn    [22mSpecifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as  an  inte-
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35       [1m-a     [22mSpecifies  that  all arguments are to be quoted.  The default is
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39       less(1)
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42       This manual page was written by  Thomas  Schoepf  <schoepf@debian.org>,
43       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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45       Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
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49                           Version 418: 02 Jan 2008                LESSECHO(1)
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