How can I use spaces in systemd command line arguments?

Question

I have a systemd unit with spaces in an argument

ExecStart=command --argument=\"text text\"

It seems that systemd does not recognize the do

Answer 1

This is actually surprisingly difficult to do, unfortunately. I stole this info from this answer. The only way to do it is to put your arguments in an environment file and then use them as variables as such (like in /etc/.progconfig):

ARG1=text
ARG2=text

Then import the environment file before running your command:

EnvironmentFile=/etc/.progconf
ExecStart = command $ARG1 $ARG2