jlessecho1
Expand metacharacters
Usage
lessecho [-ox]
[-cx]
[-pn]
[-dn]
[-mx]
[-nn]
[-ex]
[-a]
file ...
Overview
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.
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-ox -
Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.
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-cx -
Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
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-pn -
Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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-dn -
Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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-mx -
Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
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-nn -
Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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-ex -
Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.
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-fn -
Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
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-a -
Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.
History
- Debian 8 (Jessie) to Debian 5.0 (Lenny): the text shown here
- Debian 3.1 (Sarge) to Debian 3.0 (Woody)
-a since Debian 5.0 (Lenny);
-cx since Debian 5.0 (Lenny);
-dn since Debian 5.0 (Lenny);
-ex since Debian 5.0 (Lenny);
-fn since Debian 5.0 (Lenny);
-mx since Debian 5.0 (Lenny);
-nn since Debian 5.0 (Lenny);
-ox since Debian 5.0 (Lenny);
-pn since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).