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

[libguestfs.git] / tools / virt-cat

diff --git a/tools/virt-cat b/tools/virt-cat
index e000e25..67506c0 100755 (executable)
--- a/tools/virt-cat
+++ b/tools/virt-cat
@@ -160,6 +160,13 @@ mount_operating_system ($g, $os);
 # NB: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501888
 print $g->download($filename, "/dev/stdout");
 
+=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)>,