debconf-escape - helper when working with debconf's escape capability
debconf-escape -e < unescaped-text debconf-escape -u < escaped-text
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.
debconf-devel (7) (available in the debconf-doc package)
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>