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>