On 2022/08/22 16:41, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do you recommend we do the same in the cat manual page, regarding filenames?
> 
> Or for that matter, in hundreds of other manual pages.
> 
> Unix does whitespace-seperated tokenization, nearly everywhere, so I
> do not think this needs to be documented.

Agreed. It's handled by the shell, so normal shell rules apply.

> >  .Nm
> >  will hash the nwid along with the passphrase to create the key.
> > +If a passphrase contains one or more whitespaces, it can be surrounded
> > +by double quotes.

The same applies for nwid, pppoekey, descr, pass (carp).

The place this is needed is hostname.if(5) where it's not clear whether
normal shell rules apply, and it is already mentioned there (and used in
an example).

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