used to escape and to undo escaping of strings.</para>

<para>The command takes any number of strings on the command line,

output them separated by spaces to stdout.</para>

<para>By default, this command will escape the strings passed,

<option>yes</option>, full volatile mode is enabled. This

means the root directory is mounted as a mostly unpopulated

<literal>tmpfs</literal> instance, and

resources, but pristine state and configuration, any changes

to the either are lost on shutdown). When the mode parameter

is specified as <option>state</option>, the OS tree is

<para><command>systemd-path</command> may be used to query system

and user paths. The tool makes many of the paths described in

<citerefentry><refentrytitle>file-hierarchy</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>

<para>When invoked without arguments, a list of known paths and

their current values is shown. When at least one argument is

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<term><varname>m</varname></term>

<listitem><para>Add a user to a group. If the user or group

created.</para></listitem>

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