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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/lessecho.1 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/lessecho.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4733a93e --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man1/lessecho.1 @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +.TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 590: 03 Jun 2021" +.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" +.BR 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 +Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues. |