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    <body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" title="Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"> <span class="fn">Lennart Poettering</span></a>
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   title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - Please add an option to use a shell to ExecStart"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90283">bug 90283</a>
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   title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - Please add an option to use a shell to ExecStart"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90283#c1">Comment # 1</a>
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   title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - Please add an option to use a shell to ExecStart"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90283">bug 90283</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" title="Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"> <span class="fn">Lennart Poettering</span></a>
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        <pre>I am firmly against this. The idea with systemd units is really *not* to be
turing complete programs, but purely declarative, hence integrating shell
expressions natively is really against their whole idea. I know that Upstart
allowed integrated things with shell, but it's a design decision of systemd not
to do this.

That said, you can already do what you want, by encoding shell programs in the
/bin/sh -c command lines:

ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "...."

Sorry, but I am strongly against adding more support for shell than this.</pre>
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