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+.TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 451: 21 Jul 2012"
+.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.