tools: Add section describing quoting libvirt domain names to docs (RHBZ#643624)

[libguestfs.git] / inspector / virt-inspector

diff --git a/inspector/virt-inspector b/inspector/virt-inspector
index dc15f0d..04a0771 100755 (executable)
--- a/inspector/virt-inspector
+++ b/inspector/virt-inspector
@@ -843,6 +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)>,