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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-10-29 21:11:05 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-10-29 21:11:05 -0400
commit87b6ba21b5ca4aa9764f7e5a9495441348be0209 (patch)
tree261e08aa777b6241146be21769d218292b37d0db /man
parente50e60b4744e48ee83e09c6ad62a6ee52836f4c8 (diff)
parent8bb36a1122b9e45a794188c10ca68e6dc33a271c (diff)
Merge pull request #4520 from lucaswerkmeister/systemd-escape-man
systemd-escape manpage improvements
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/systemd-escape.xml13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-escape.xml b/man/systemd-escape.xml
index dbb3869a24..5e95e22536 100644
--- a/man/systemd-escape.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-escape.xml
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
<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
+ <filename>foobar@.service</filename>. May not be used in
conjunction with <option>--suffix=</option>,
<option>--unescape</option> or
<option>--mangle</option>.</para></listitem>
@@ -108,9 +108,10 @@
<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>
+ it refers to a file system path. This eliminates leading,
+ trailing or duplicate <literal>/</literal> characters
+ and rejects <literal>.</literal> and <literal>..</literal>
+ path components.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
- <para>Escape a single string:</para>
+ <para>To escape a single string:</para>
<programlisting>$ systemd-escape 'Hallöchen, Meister'
Hall\xc3\xb6chen\x2c\x20Meister</programlisting>
@@ -155,7 +156,7 @@ Hallöchen, Meister</programlisting>
<programlisting>$ systemd-escape -p --suffix=mount "/tmp//waldi/foobar/"
tmp-waldi-foobar.mount</programlisting>
- <para>To generate instance names of three strings</para>
+ <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>