User Commands                                         LESECHO(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.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:




SunOS 5.10    Last change: Version 418: 02 Jan 2008             1






User Commands                                         LESECHO(1)



     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE     ATRIBUTE VALUE
    
     Availability         SUNWless       
    
     Interface Stability  Volatile       
    

NOTES
     Source for less is available on http:/opensolaris.org.













































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