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-rw-r--r--man/tmpfiles.d.xml5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index c6325a457b..a86ef33695 100644
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -114,7 +114,10 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null</programlisting>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>w</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Write the argument parameter to a file, if it exists. Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Write the argument parameter to a file, if the file exists.
+ Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path
+ names. The argument parameter will be written without a trailing
+ newline. C-style backslash escapes are interpreted.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>