X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=inspector%2Fvirt-inspector;h=04a0771a2294dae7f42dec04ee8cd9a3fa5b8ad5;hb=6391d1a7cfa10337a75465c72d49df3c9ebc65ca;hp=a7a65146bd4d65d4da8dafc7f50bbdc2274cdc97;hpb=ebfcb7f23df4546977628dc718982730682a68c0;p=libguestfs.git

diff --git a/inspector/virt-inspector b/inspector/virt-inspector
index a7a6514..04a0771 100755
--- a/inspector/virt-inspector
+++ b/inspector/virt-inspector
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ use Pod::Usage;
 use Getopt::Long;
 use Data::Dumper;
 use XML::Writer;
+use String::ShellQuote qw(shell_quote);
 use Locale::TextDomain 'libguestfs';
 
 # Optional:
@@ -298,13 +299,17 @@ if ($output eq "fish" || $output eq "ro-fish") {
         print "--ro ";
     }
 
-    print "-a $_ " foreach @images;
+    foreach (@images) {
+        printf "-a %s ", shell_quote ($_);
+    }
 
     my $mounts = $oses->{$root_dev}->{mounts};
     # Have to mount / first.  Luckily '/' is early in the ASCII
     # character set, so this should be OK.
     foreach (sort keys %$mounts) {
-        print "-m $mounts->{$_}:$_ " if $_ ne "swap" && $_ ne "none";
+        if ($_ ne "swap" && $_ ne "none") {
+            printf "-m %s ", shell_quote ("$mounts->{$_}:$_");
+        }
     }
     print "\n"
 }
@@ -316,7 +321,7 @@ elsif ($output eq "perl") {
 
 # YAML output
 elsif ($output eq "yaml") {
-    die __"virt-inspector: no YAML support\n"
+    die __"virt-inspector: no YAML support, try installing perl-YAML or libyaml-perl\n"
         unless exists $INC{"YAML/Any.pm"};
 
     print Dump(%$oses);
@@ -838,6 +843,13 @@ sub output_query_kernel_arch
 
 =back
 
+=head1 SHELL QUOTING
+
+Libvirt guest names can contain arbitrary characters, some of which
+have meaning to the shell such as C<#> and space.  You may need to
+quote or escape these characters on the command line.  See the shell
+manual page L<sh(1)> for details.
+
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<guestfs(3)>,
@@ -847,9 +859,9 @@ L<Sys::Guestfs::Lib(3)>,
 L<Sys::Virt(3)>,
 L<http://libguestfs.org/>.
 
-=head1 AUTHOR
+=head1 AUTHORS
 
-Richard W.M. Jones L<http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/>
+Richard W.M. Jones L<http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/>
 
 Matthew Booth L<mbooth@redhat.com>