[Libguestfs] [PATCH] fish: add a small doc note about -- for args (RHBZ#1536603)

Pino Toscano ptoscano at redhat.com
Wed Feb 7 16:34:50 UTC 2018


This will hint what to do when any argument of a command starts with a
dash.
---
 fish/guestfish.pod | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fish/guestfish.pod b/fish/guestfish.pod
index ad98e975e..bbf43aad5 100644
--- a/fish/guestfish.pod
+++ b/fish/guestfish.pod
@@ -458,6 +458,13 @@ command that gives an error causes the whole shell to exit.  In
 interactive mode (with a prompt) if a command fails, you can continue
 to enter commands.
 
+Note that arguments of the commands will be considered as guestfish
+options if they start with a dash (C<->): you can always separate the
+guestfish options and the rest of the commands (with their arguments)
+using a double dash (C<-->).  For example:
+
+ guestfish -- disk_create overlay.qcow2 qcow2 -1 backingfile:image.img
+
 =head1 USING launch (OR run)
 
 As with L<guestfs(3)>, you must first configure your guest by adding
-- 
2.14.3




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