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1 perry 1 LESSECHO
2 !!!LESSECHO
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 SEE ALSO
8 AUTHOR
9 ----
10 !!NAME
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13 lessecho - expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.
14 !!SYNOPSIS
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17 __lessecho__ ''[[-ox] [[-cx] [[-pn] [[-dn] [[-a] file
18 ...''
19 !!DESCRIPTION
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22 This manual page documents briefly the __lessecho__
23 command. This manual page was written for the Debian
24 GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
25 have a manual page.
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28 __lessecho__ is a program that simply echos its filename
29 arguments on standard output. But any argument containing
30 spaces is enclosed in quotes.
31 !!OPTIONS
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34 A summary of options are included below.
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37 __-ox__
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40 Specifies
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43 __-cx__
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46 Specifies
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49 __-pn__
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52 Specifies
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55 __-dn__
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58 Specifies
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61 __-a__
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64 Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default
65 is that only arguments containing spaces are
66 quoted.
67 !!SEE ALSO
68
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70 less(1)
71 !!AUTHOR
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74 This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf
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