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.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Send bug reports or comments to [email protected].