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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-07-07 22:48:25 +0200
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+<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
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+
+<refentry id="systemd-escape"
+ xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>systemd-escape</title>
+ <productname>systemd</productname>
+
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <contrib>Developer</contrib>
+ <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
+ <surname>Poettering</surname>
+ <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ </refentryinfo>
+
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>systemd-escape</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>systemd-escape</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Escape strings for usage in system unit names</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>systemd-escape <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">STRING</arg></command>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><command>systemd-escape</command> may be used to
+ escape strings for inclusion in systemd unit
+ names. The command may be used to escape and to undo
+ escaping of strings.</para>
+
+ <para>The command takes any number of strings on the
+ command line, and will process them individually, one
+ after the other. It will output them separated by
+ spaces to stdout.</para>
+
+ <para>By default this command will escape the strings
+ passed, unless <option>--unescape</option> is passed
+ which results in the inverse operation being
+ applied. If <option>--mangle</option> a special mode
+ of escaping is applied instead, which assumes a string
+ to be already escaped but will escape everything that
+ appears obviously non-escaped.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Options</title>
+
+ <para>The following options are understood:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--suffix=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Appends the specified
+ unit type suffix to the escaped
+ string. Takes one of the unit types
+ supported by systemd, such as
+ <literal>.service</literal> or
+ <literal>.mount</literal>. May not be
+ used in conjunction with
+ <option>--template=</option>,
+ <option>--unescape</option> or
+ <option>--mangle</option>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--template=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Inserts the escaped
+ strings in a unit name template. Takes
+ a unit name template such as
+ <filename>foobar@.service</filename>
+ May not be used in conjunction with
+ <option>--suffix=</option>,
+ <option>--unescape</option> or
+ <option>--mangle</option>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--path</option></term>
+ <term><option>-p</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>When escaping or
+ unescaping a string, assume it refers
+ to a file system path. This enables
+ special processing of the initial
+ <literal>/</literal> of the
+ path.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--unescape</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Instead of escaping
+ the specified strings, undo the
+ escaping, reversing the operation. May
+ not be used in conjunction with
+ <option>--suffix=</option>,
+ <option>--template=</option> or
+ <option>--mangle</option>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--mangle</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Like
+ <option>--escape</option>, but only
+ escape characters that are obviously
+ not escaped yet, and possibly
+ automatically append an appropriate
+ unit type suffix to the string. May
+ not be used in conjunction with
+ <option>--suffix=</option>,
+ <option>--template=</option> or
+ <option>--unescape</option>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+ <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Examples</title>
+
+ <para>Escape a single string:</para>
+ <programlisting>$ systemd-escape 'Hallöchen, Meister'
+Hall\xc3\xb6chen\x2c\x20Meister</programlisting>
+
+ <para>To undo escaping on a single string:</para>
+ <programlisting>$ systemd-escape -u 'Hall\xc3\xb6chen\x2c\x20Meister'
+Hallöchen, Meister</programlisting>
+
+ <para>To generate the mount unit for a path:</para>
+ <programlisting>$ systemd-escape -p --suffix=mount "/tmp//waldi/foobar/"
+tmp-waldi-foobar.mount</programlisting>
+
+ <para>To generate instance names of three strings</para>
+ <programlisting>$ systemd-escape --template=systemd-nspawn@.service 'My Container 1' 'containerb' 'container/III'
+systemd-nspawn@My\x20Container\x201.service systemd-nspawn@containerb.service systemd-nspawn@container-III.service</programlisting>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Exit status</title>
+
+ <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
+ code otherwise.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See Also</title>
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>