DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1) Debconf 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>
2020-04-18 DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)