debconf-escape - helper when working with debconf's escape capability

       Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

                                                   2024-11-20                                  DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)

       When debconf has the 'escape' capability set, it will expect commands you send it to have backslashes and
       newlines escaped (as "\\" and "\n" respectively) and will in turn escape backslashes and newlines in its
       replies. This can be used, for example, to substitute multi-line strings into templates, or to get multi-
       line extended descriptions reliably using "METAGET".

       debconf-escape - helper when working with debconf's escape capability

debconf-devel(7) (available in the debconf-doc package)

        debconf-escape -e < unescaped-text
        debconf-escape -u < escaped-text