| .TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 444: 09 Jun 2011" |
| .SH NAME |
| lessecho \- expand metacharacters |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B lessecho |
| .I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ..." |
| .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| .I lessecho |
| is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. |
| But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| A summary of options is included below. |
| .TP |
| .B \-ox |
| Specifies "x" to be the open quote character. |
| .TP |
| .B \-cx |
| Specifies "x" to be the close quote character. |
| .TP |
| .B \-pn |
| Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. |
| .TP |
| .B \-dn |
| Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. |
| .TP |
| .B \-mx |
| Specifies "x" to be a metachar. |
| .TP |
| .B \-nn |
| Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer. |
| .TP |
| .B \-ex |
| Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars. |
| .TP |
| .B \-fn |
| Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer. |
| .TP |
| .B \-a |
| Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. |
| The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted. |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| less(1) |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, |
| for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). |
| .PP |
| Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org. |
