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

[libguestfs.git] / tools / virt-edit

diff --git a/tools/virt-edit b/tools/virt-edit
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--- a/tools/virt-edit
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@@ -322,6 +322,13 @@ If not set, C<vi> is used.
 
 =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)>,