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| -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 |