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authorjames <james@e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5>2007-10-22 19:19:21 +0000
committerjames <james@e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5>2007-10-22 19:19:21 +0000
commit7256e6b4d6439695fc1221b00ae0b876006ffe75 (patch)
treebd2d99212b5015433fbecd0a97f64f5fb2dca3f6 /openvpn.8
parentAdded --management-signal option to signal SIGUSR1 when the management (diff)
downloadopenvpn-7256e6b4d6439695fc1221b00ae0b876006ffe75.tar.xz
Modified command line and config file parser to allow
quoted strings using single quotes ('') (Alon Bar-Lev). git-svn-id: http://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/branches/BETA21/openvpn@2414 e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5
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diff --git a/openvpn.8 b/openvpn.8
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--- a/openvpn.8
+++ b/openvpn.8
@@ -380,13 +380,14 @@ can be removed, and the command can be given as
Note that
configuration files can be nested to a reasonable depth.
-Double quotation characters ("") can be used
-to enclose single parameters containing whitespace,
+Double quotation or single quotation characters ("", '')
+can be used to enclose single parameters containing whitespace,
and "#" or ";" characters in the first column
can be used to denote comments.
Note that OpenVPN 2.0 and higher performs backslash-based shell
-escaping, so the following mappings should be observed:
+escaping for characters not in single quotations,
+so the following mappings should be observed:
.RS
.ft 3