[systemd-devel] Formatting Execstart= for readability

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Aug 16 09:09:23 UTC 2017


Am 16.08.2017 um 10:31 schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas:
> Just put everything in a shell script. (That way you can test it 
> directly without systemd, too.)
> 
> With bash, you can use inline comments in arrays:
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/env bash
>     args=(
>          -X POST                     # foo
>          -d "fizz=systemd"           # some docs
>          -d "some=else"              # more docs
>     https://requestb.in/foo
>     )
> 
>     exec curl "${args[@]}"

this is the worst recommendation one can give - really - that way you 
easily lose all the advantages of systemd in case of error handling




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