LESSECHO(1)                                           LESSECHO(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.



                     Version 394: 03 Dec 2005         LESSECHO(1)