.TH LESSECHO 1 .\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .SH NAME lessecho \- expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems. .SH SYNOPSIS .B lessecho .I "[-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-a] file ..." .SH "DESCRIPTION" This manual page documents briefly the .BR lessecho command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. .PP .B lessecho is a program that simply echos its filename arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes. .SH OPTIONS A summary of options are included below. .TP .B \-ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character. .TP .B \-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character. .TP .B \-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. .TP .B \-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. .TP .B \-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted. .SH "SEE ALSO" less(1) .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). .PP Less was written by Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>