From 565d91fdf198b88f7c2d72c67cfc6c30341a3596 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Vyskocil Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:05:10 +0100 Subject: util: continuation support for load_env_file Variable definitions can be written on more than one line - if each ends with a backslash, then is concatenated with a previous one. Only backslash and unix end of line (\n) are treated as a continuation. Fixes: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58083 [zj: squashed two patches together; cleaned up grammar; removed comment about ignoring trailing backslash -- it is not ignored.] Document continuation support in systemd.exec --- man/systemd.exec.xml | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/systemd.exec.xml') diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml index 71472b4f5d..8a22ac0138 100644 --- a/man/systemd.exec.xml +++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml @@ -299,9 +299,11 @@ contain new-line separated variable assignments. Empty lines and lines starting with ; or # will be ignored, - which may be used for commenting. The - parser strips leading and - trailing whitespace from the values + which may be used for commenting. A line + ending with a backslash will be concatenated + with the following one, allowing multiline variable + definitions. The parser strips leading + and trailing whitespace from the values of assignments, unless you use double quotes ("). -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf