debconf-escape(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

   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".

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

   Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

                              2016-04-27                 DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)

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