systemd/0530-man-document-stripping-of-quotes.patch
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 62fe9450da Update to latest git
2014-10-07 15:51:56 -04:00

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From 5d9a2698e74eefc20ea7cbbaeaffb566e398f2ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:19:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] man: document stripping of quotes
---
man/systemd.service.xml | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index dbc82edbd4..50ff2f5bd5 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -1215,13 +1215,39 @@
contains, resulting in a single argument. Use
<literal>$FOO</literal> as a separate word on the
command line, in which case it will be replaced by the
- value of the environment variable split at whitespace,
- resulting in zero or more arguments. To pass a literal
- dollar sign, use <literal>$$</literal>. Variables
- whose value is not known at expansion time are treated
- as empty strings. Note that the first argument
- (i.e. the program to execute) may not be a
- variable.</para>
+ value of the environment variable split at whitespace
+ resulting in zero or more arguments. For this type of
+ expansion, quotes and respected when splitting into
+ words, and afterwards removed.</para>
+
+ <para>Example:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>Environment="ONE=one" 'TWO=two two'
+ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO}</programlisting>
+
+ <para>This will execute <command>/bin/echo</command>
+ with four arguments: <literal>one</literal>,
+ <literal>two</literal>, <literal>two</literal>, and
+ <literal>two two</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para>Example:</para>
+ <programlisting>Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
+ExecStart=/bin/echo ${ONE} ${TWO} ${THREE}
+ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO $THREE</programlisting>
+ <para>This results in <filename>echo</filename> being
+ called twice, the first time with arguments
+ <literal>'one'</literal>,
+ <literal>'two two' too</literal>, <literal></literal>,
+ and the second time with arguments
+ <literal>one</literal>, <literal>two two</literal>,
+ <literal>too</literal>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>To pass a literal dollar sign, use
+ <literal>$$</literal>. Variables whose value is not
+ known at expansion time are treated as empty
+ strings. Note that the first argument (i.e. the
+ program to execute) may not be a variable.</para>
<para>Variables to be used in this fashion may be
defined through <varname>Environment=</varname> and
@@ -1259,16 +1285,6 @@
<literal>&gt;/dev/null</literal>,
<literal>&amp;</literal>, <literal>;</literal>, and
<literal>/bin/ls</literal>.</para>
-
- <para>Example:</para>
-
- <programlisting>Environment="ONE=one" 'TWO=two two'
-ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO}</programlisting>
-
- <para>This will execute <command>/bin/echo</command>
- with four arguments: <literal>one</literal>,
- <literal>two</literal>, <literal>two</literal>, and
- <literal>two two</literal>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>