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diff --git a/lessecho.nro b/lessecho.nro new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e62698 --- /dev/null +++ b/lessecho.nro @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +.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. |