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

[libguestfs.git] / tools / virt-tar

diff --git a/tools/virt-tar b/tools/virt-tar
index 3e6e20b..5e6e95a 100755 (executable)
--- a/tools/virt-tar
+++ b/tools/virt-tar
@@ -254,6 +254,13 @@ undef $g;
 
 exit 0;
 
+=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)>,