Section 1 · User commands
lessecho.1
Package: less
LESSECHO
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
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
less(1)
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.