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man: document stripping of quotes

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2014-10-07 09:19:41 -04:00
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contains, resulting in a single argument. Use
<literal>$FOO</literal> as a separate word on the
command line, in which case it will be replaced by the
value of the environment variable split at whitespace,
resulting in zero or more arguments. To pass a literal
dollar sign, use <literal>$$</literal>. Variables
whose value is not known at expansion time are treated
as empty strings. Note that the first argument
(i.e. the program to execute) may not be a
variable.</para>
value of the environment variable split at whitespace
resulting in zero or more arguments. For this type of
expansion, quotes and respected when splitting into
words, and afterwards removed.</para>
<para>Example:</para>
<programlisting>Environment="ONE=one" 'TWO=two two'
ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO}</programlisting>
<para>This will execute <command>/bin/echo</command>
with four arguments: <literal>one</literal>,
<literal>two</literal>, <literal>two</literal>, and
<literal>two two</literal>.</para>
<para>Example:</para>
<programlisting>Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
ExecStart=/bin/echo ${ONE} ${TWO} ${THREE}
ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO $THREE</programlisting>
<para>This results in <filename>echo</filename> being
called twice, the first time with arguments
<literal>'one'</literal>,
<literal>'two two' too</literal>, <literal></literal>,
and the second time with arguments
<literal>one</literal>, <literal>two two</literal>,
<literal>too</literal>.
</para>
<para>To pass a literal dollar sign, use
<literal>$$</literal>. Variables whose value is not
known at expansion time are treated as empty
strings. Note that the first argument (i.e. the
program to execute) may not be a variable.</para>
<para>Variables to be used in this fashion may be
defined through <varname>Environment=</varname> and
@ -1259,16 +1285,6 @@
<literal>&gt;/dev/null</literal>,
<literal>&amp;</literal>, <literal>;</literal>, and
<literal>/bin/ls</literal>.</para>
<para>Example:</para>
<programlisting>Environment="ONE=one" 'TWO=two two'
ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO}</programlisting>
<para>This will execute <command>/bin/echo</command>
with four arguments: <literal>one</literal>,
<literal>two</literal>, <literal>two</literal>, and
<literal>two two</literal>.</para>
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