From ebde27381b403af79ba25cc2d8f3e3823a8ba764 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Friesel Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 13:00:58 +0100 Subject: Preserve leading spaces, document shell problems with whitespaces & IFS --- man/1/envstore | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/1/envstore b/man/1/envstore index 6ee8f4e..7e65bce 100644 --- a/man/1/envstore +++ b/man/1/envstore @@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ by default, .Sh LIMITATIONS Variable names or values must not contain null bytes or newlines. .Pp +Due to limitations imposed by most shells, it is not possible to save +parameters containing more than one consecutive whitespace. +.Nm +will save and display them correctly, but unless you do +.Ev IFS +trickery, your shell will not be able to load them. +.Pp The current maximum length (in bytes) is 255 bytes for the variable name and 1023 bytes for its content. .Sh AUTHOR -- cgit v1.2.3