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* Allow backslash escaping of metacharacters in LESS environment variable after the --use-backslash option. * Don't quit if syntax errors are found in command line options. * Increase sizes of some internal buffers. * Fix configure bug with --with-regex=none. * Fix crash with "stty rows 0". * Fix display bug when using up/down arrow on the command line. * Add ESC-F command to keep reading data until a pattern is found. * Use exit code of LESSOPEN script if LESSOPEN starts with "||". * When up/down arrow is used on the command line immediately after typing text, the next command starting with that text is found. * Add support for GNU regex. * Add configure option --with-regex=none and fix compile errors when compiling with no regex library. * Fix possible crashes caused by malformed LESSOPEN or LESSCLOSE variables. * Fix bug highlighting text which is discontiguous in the file due to backspace processing. * Fix bug in displaying status column when scrolling backwards with -J and -S in effect.
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53 lines
1.5 KiB
Groff
.TH LESSECHO 1 "Version 458: 04 Apr 2013"
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.SH NAME
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lessecho \- expand metacharacters
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B lessecho
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.I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ..."
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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.I lessecho
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is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.
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But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
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character, which by default is a backslash.
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.SH OPTIONS
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A summary of options is included below.
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.TP
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.B \-ex
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Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars.
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If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments containing metachars
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are surrounded by quotes instead.
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.TP
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.B \-ox
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Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character,
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which is used if the -e- option is specified.
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.TP
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.B \-cx
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Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
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.TP
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.B \-pn
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Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
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.TP
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.B \-dn
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Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
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.TP
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.B \-mx
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Specifies "x" to be a metachar.
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By default, no characters are considered metachars.
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.TP
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.B \-nn
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Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
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.TP
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.B \-fn
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Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
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.TP
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.B \-a
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Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.
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The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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less(1)
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.SH AUTHOR
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This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>,
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for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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.PP
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Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.
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