1LESSECHO(1) LESSECHO(1) 2 3 4 5[1mNAME[0m 6 lessecho - expand metacharacters 7 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 10 11[1mDESCRIPTION[0m 12 [4mlessecho[24m is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out- 13 put. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes. 14 15[1mOPTIONS[0m 16 A summary of options is included below. 17 18 [1m-ox [22mSpecifies "x" to be the open quote character. 19 20 [1m-cx [22mSpecifies "x" to be the close quote character. 21 22 [1m-pn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. 23 24 [1m-dn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. 25 26 [1m-mx [22mSpecifies "x" to be a metachar. 27 28 [1m-nn [22mSpecifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer. 29 30 [1m-ex [22mSpecifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars. 31 32 [1m-fn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte- 33 ger. 34 35 [1m-a [22mSpecifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is 36 that only arguments containing spaces are quoted. 37 38[1mSEE ALSO[0m 39 less(1) 40 41[1mAUTHOR[0m 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). 44 45 Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org. 46 47 48 49 Version 418: 02 Jan 2008 LESSECHO(1) 50