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

[libguestfs.git] / tools / virt-ls

diff --git a/tools/virt-ls b/tools/virt-ls
index 8813d2f..9271a91 100755 (executable)
--- a/tools/virt-ls
+++ b/tools/virt-ls
@@ -207,6 +207,13 @@ unless ($mode) {
     close F;
 }
 
+=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)>,