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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2018-11-08 09:36:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com> | 2018-11-08 18:09:04 +0900 |
| commit | 2ca4d779e021fdd94f4445980baa0aa8af6ffdc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b4ecdafb9bc1087751363de592f6d5e61a3f926 /man/systemd.syntax.xml | |
| parent | 9adbfeb38ac101d6f73a033bb120d63513ffb240 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-2ca4d779e021fdd94f4445980baa0aa8af6ffdc4.tar.gz | |
man: document the details of continuations and comments
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diff --git a/man/systemd.syntax.xml b/man/systemd.syntax.xml index 3c67e92dd5..67cd640eea 100644 --- a/man/systemd.syntax.xml +++ b/man/systemd.syntax.xml @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ backslash is replaced by a space character. This may be used to wrap long lines. The limit on line length is very large (currently 1 MB), but it is recommended to avoid such long lines and use multiple directives, variable substitution, or other mechanism as appropriate for the given - file type.</para> + file type. When a comment line or lines follow a line ending with a backslash, the comment block + is ignored, so the continued line is concatenated with whatever follows the comment block.</para> <example><programlisting>[Section A] KeyOne=value 1 @@ -85,6 +86,12 @@ KeyTwo=value 2 Setting="something" "some thing" "…" KeyTwo=value 2 \ value 2 continued + +[Section C] +KeyThree=value 2\ +# this line is ignored +; this line is ignored too + value 2 continued </programlisting></example> <para>Boolean arguments used in configuration files can be written in |