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| author | Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org> | 2010-01-03 13:00:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org> | 2010-01-03 13:00:58 +0100 |
| commit | ebde27381b403af79ba25cc2d8f3e3823a8ba764 (patch) | |
| tree | 02dbcd1cce5b0baaf0b53c524b15bf3c59ba55d0 /man/1 | |
| parent | 5dc79a2cb1afd3bfaafb58ceee93219a29825017 (diff) | |
Preserve leading spaces, document shell problems with whitespaces & IFS
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/1/envstore | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
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 |