lessecho - expand metacharacters

       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
       may be used by others).

       Report bugs at https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues.

                                            Version 643: 20 Jul 2023                                 LESSECHO(1)

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.

       lessecho - expand metacharacters

       A summary of options is included below.

       -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.

       -ox    Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the  -e-
              option is specified.

       -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.  By default, no characters are considered metachars.

       -nn    Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.

       -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
              metacharacters are quoted.

less(1)

lessecho[-ox][-cx][-pn][-dn][-mx][-nn][-ex][-a]file...