LESSECHO(1) | General Commands Manual | LESSECHO(1) |
NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape" character, which by default is a backslash. lessecho is invoked internally by less, and is not intended to be used directly by humans.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
- -ex
- Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars. If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments containing metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.
- -ox
- Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
- -cx
- Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
- -pn
- Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
- -dn
- Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
- -mx
- Specifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.
- -nn
- Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
- -fn
- Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
- -a
- Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.
Version 668: 06 Oct 2024 |