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 <schoepf@debian.org>, 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)