X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fsystemd.service.xml;h=50ff2f5bd5ac71d30fcc32b3ef233c8b063380c6;hb=5d9a2698e74eefc20ea7cbbaeaffb566e398f2ba;hp=dbc82edbd47bbcf0e56662faaa3a2abf59b6daa4;hpb=30d88d54f613f9f7831172876ebfd9e285fb043b;p=elogind.git
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index dbc82edbd..50ff2f5bd 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -1215,13 +1215,39 @@
contains, resulting in a single argument. Use
$FOO 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 $$. Variables
- whose value is not known at expansion time are treated
- as empty strings. Note that the first argument
- (i.e. the program to execute) may not be a
- variable.
+ value of the environment variable split at whitespace
+ resulting in zero or more arguments. For this type of
+ expansion, quotes and respected when splitting into
+ words, and afterwards removed.
+
+ Example:
+
+ Environment="ONE=one" 'TWO=two two'
+ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO}
+
+ This will execute /bin/echo
+ with four arguments: one,
+ two, two, and
+ two two.
+
+ Example:
+ Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
+ExecStart=/bin/echo ${ONE} ${TWO} ${THREE}
+ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO $THREE
+ This results in echo being
+ called twice, the first time with arguments
+ 'one',
+ 'two two' too, ,
+ and the second time with arguments
+ one, two two,
+ too.
+
+
+ To pass a literal dollar sign, use
+ $$. 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.
Variables to be used in this fashion may be
defined through Environment= and
@@ -1259,16 +1285,6 @@
>/dev/null,
&, ;, and
/bin/ls.
-
- Example:
-
- Environment="ONE=one" 'TWO=two two'
-ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO}
-
- This will execute /bin/echo
- with four arguments: one,
- two, two, and
- two two.