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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 out‐
      put.  But any metacharacter in the output is preceded  by  an  "escape"
      character, which by default is a backslash.

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 inte‐
             ger.

      -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 <[email protected]>,
      for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

      Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.



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