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| author | Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@gmail.com> | 2014-12-24 14:46:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2014-12-25 10:55:42 -0500 |
| commit | 321a3f5133a415ad9c95e15e95e46556c08973aa (patch) | |
| tree | f7454d5cfe865c84f6e1c13f99f8f28e271cdaea /man/os-release.xml | |
| parent | 7115e487cd1881ae4934317ac5f91ee11d5e1a75 (diff) | |
doc: os-release: mention all shell characters that must be escaped
Since the manpage already talks about shell-compatibility, it should be
more accurate about what needs to be escaped and how.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/os-release.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/os-release.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/os-release.xml b/man/os-release.xml index b298304943..b4cbeba395 100644 --- a/man/os-release.xml +++ b/man/os-release.xml @@ -68,17 +68,16 @@ (this means variable expansion is explicitly not supported), allowing applications to read the file without implementing a shell compatible execution - engine. Variable assignment values should be enclosed - in double or single quotes if they include spaces, + engine. Variable assignment values must be enclosed in + double or single quotes if they include spaces, semicolons or other special characters outside of A-Z, - a-z, 0-9. All strings should be in UTF-8 format, and - non-printable characters should not be used. If double - or single quotes or backslashes are to be used within - variable assignments, they should be escaped with - backslashes, following shell style. It is not - supported to concatenate multiple individually quoted - strings. Lines beginning with "#" shall be ignored as - comments.</para> + a-z, 0-9. Shell special characters ("$", quotes, + backslash, backtick) must be escaped with backslashes, + following shell style. All strings should be in UTF-8 + format, and non-printable characters should not be used. + It is not supported to concatenate multiple individually + quoted strings. Lines beginning with "#" shall be + ignored as comments.</para> <para>The file <filename>/etc/os-release</filename> takes precedence over |