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5[1mNAME[0m
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       [1mlessecho  [22mis a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out���
13       put.  But any metacharacter in the output is preceded  by  an  "escape"
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17       A summary of options is included below.
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19       [1m-e[4m[22mx[24m    Specifies  "[4mx[24m", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for
20              metachars.  If [4mx[24m is "-", no escape char is  used  and  arguments
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23       [1m-o[4m[22mx[24m    Specifies  "[4mx[24m",  rather  than double-quote, to be the open quote
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26       [1m-c[4m[22mx[24m    Specifies "[4mx[24m" to be the close quote character.
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28       [1m-p[4m[22mn[24m    Specifies "[4mn[24m" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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30       [1m-d[4m[22mn[24m    Specifies "[4mn[24m" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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32       [1m-m[4m[22mx[24m    Specifies "[4mx[24m" to be a metachar.  By default, no  characters  are
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35       [1m-n[4m[22mn[24m    Specifies "[4mn[24m" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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37       [1m-f[4m[22mn[24m    Specifies  "[4mn[24m"  to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte���
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40       [1m-a     [22mSpecifies that all arguments are to be quoted.  The  default  is
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47       This  manual  page  was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
48       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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50       Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.
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