Manual: debconf-escape

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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 

						 2026-02-16				   DEBCONF-ESCAPE(1)