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title="NEW - ExecStart with whitespace in path"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86171">86171</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>ExecStart with whitespace in path
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<th>Product</th>
<td>systemd
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>mail@ollic.de
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<pre>I have a service file with a path on ExecStart option that contains
whitespaces.
The manpage suggests to double or single quote the command.
I have tried every possible combination, but the only thing that works is when
you use \x20 for each whitespace.
On errors i get either "main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC" or
"Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: ..."
What does not work:
ExecStart=/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon -Param1 -Param2
ExecStart="/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon" -Param1 -Param2
ExecStart="/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon -Param1 -Param2"
ExecStart="/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon" "-Param1 -Param2"
ExecStart="/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon" "-Param1" "-Param2"
ExecStart=/PATH\ WITH\ SPACES/daemon -Param1 -Param2
What does work:
ExecStart=/PATH\x20WITH\x20SPACES/daemon -Param1 -Param2</pre>
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