LESSECHO(1) LESSECHO(1)
[1mNAME[0m
lessecho - expand metacharacters
[1mSYNOPSIS[0m
[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
[1mDESCRIPTION[0m
[4mlessecho[24m is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard out-
put. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.
[1mOPTIONS[0m
A summary of options is included below.
[1m-ox [22mSpecifies "x" to be the open quote character.
[1m-cx [22mSpecifies "x" to be the close quote character.
[1m-pn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
[1m-dn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
[1m-mx [22mSpecifies "x" to be a metachar.
[1m-nn [22mSpecifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
[1m-ex [22mSpecifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
[1m-fn [22mSpecifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an inte-
ger.
[1m-a [22mSpecifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is
that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
[1mSEE ALSO[0m
less(1)
[1mAUTHOR[0m
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
Version 418: 02 Jan 2008 LESSECHO(1)