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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-10-18 13:18:20 +0100
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2010-10-18 13:18:20 +0100
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tools: Add section describing quoting libvirt domain names to docs (RHBZ#643624)
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@@ -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)>,