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-LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
-
-
+LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
- lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
+ 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.
+ character, which by default is a backslash. lessecho is invoked inter‐
+ nally 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
+ 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.
+ -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.
@@ -49,6 +48,4 @@ LESSECHO(1) General Commands Manual LESSECHO(1)
Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.
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-
- Version 643: 20 Jul 2023 LESSECHO(1)
+ Version 668: 06 Oct 2024 LESSECHO(1)