Update HOSTFILE FORMAT description.

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Darko Poljak 2016-08-20 07:49:52 +02:00
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@ -120,10 +120,15 @@ Configure one or more hosts.
HOSTFILE FORMAT
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HOSTFILE contains hosts per line.
All characters after and including '#' until the end of line is a comment
and is stripped away.
Empty lines and comment lines (line that starts with '#') are skipped.
HOSTFILE contains hosts per line.
All characters after and including '#' until the end of line is a comment.
In a line, all leading and trailing whitespace characters are ignored.
Empty lines are ignored/skipped.
Hostfile line is processed like the following. First, all comments are
removed. Then all leading and trailing whitespace characters are stripped.
If such a line results in empty line it is ignored/skipped. Otherwise,
host string is used.
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