User Commands 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 argument containing spaces is
enclosed in quotes.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
-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.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-ex Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
-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 spaces are
quoted.
SEE ALSO
less(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf
, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
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User Commands LESSECHO(1)
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| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE|
|____________________|__________________|_
| Availability | text/less |
|____________________|__________________|_
| Interface Stability| Volatile |
|____________________|_________________|
NOTES
Source for less is available on http://opensolaris.org.
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