minix/external/bsd/less/dist/lessecho.1
Lionel Sambuc 84d9c625bf Synchronize on NetBSD-CVS (2013/12/1 12:00:00 UTC)
- Fix for possible unset uid/gid in toproto
 - Fix for default mtree style
 - Update libelf
 - Importing libexecinfo
 - Resynchronize GCC, mpc, gmp, mpfr
 - build.sh: Replace params with show-params.
     This has been done as the make target has been renamed in the same
     way, while a new target named params has been added. This new
     target generates a file containing all the parameters, instead of
     printing it on the console.
 - Update test48 with new etc/services (Fix by Ben Gras <ben@minix3.org)
     get getservbyport() out of the inner loop

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.TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 458: 04 Apr 2013"
.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 metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
character, which by default is a backslash.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-ex
Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.
If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments containing metachars
are surrounded by quotes instead.
.TP
.B \-ox
Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character,
which is used if the -e- option is specified.
.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.
By default, no characters are considered metachars.
.TP
.B \-nn
Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
.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 metacharacters 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.