Does systemd expose any unit-file-parsing functionality?

[Tom Lane]

Tomasz Torcz <tomek at pipebreaker.pl> writes:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:32:22AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I have a shell script that needs to dig the values of a couple of
>> "Environment=" settings out of a systemd service file.  Currently
>> it just assumes it knows the search path for such things, finds
>> the file, and greps for the right lines.  This seems unduly friendly
>> with the file format, and it was just pointed out to me that it
>> completely fails to handle .include directives.  So I'm wondering if
>> there is anything in the systemd infrastructure that could help me
>> do this in a more robust way.  Ideas anyone?

>   You can try
>  systemctl show -p Environment <unit>

[ experiments with that ... ]  Hm, the output format seems pretty
ill-designed, but I guess I can pick it apart with some careful
sed'ing.  Better than trying to handle .include for myself, anyway.
Thanks for the suggestion!

			regards, tom lane