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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. On
top of that basic environment variable
substitution is supported, where
- <literal>$(FOO)</literal> is replaced
- by the value of the environment
- variable of the same
- name.</para></listitem>
+ <literal>${FOO}</literal> is replaced
+ by the string value of the environment
+ variable of the same name. Also
+ <literal>$FOO</literal> may appear as
+ seperate word on the command line in
+ which case the variable is replaced by
+ its value split at
+ whitespaces.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>