doc/man: add notes about shell escaping

Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx <eeppeliteloop@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>

diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-add-context.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-add-context.1.txt
index c7f8d3d6848f11264a0f9b0176efcd6042a7b415..529a7da26478f15891d002c29e666ad29b7bbd48 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/lttng-add-context.1.txt
+++ b/doc/man/lttng-add-context.1.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ with:
 'TYPE'::
     Context type name.
 
+NOTE: Make sure to **single-quote** the type when running the command
+from a shell, as `$` is a special character for variable substitution in
+most shells.
+
 Use the option:--list option without other arguments to list the
 available context field names.
 

diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-enable-event.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-enable-event.1.txt
index d1b17c856326e2e710b782347dfe778f5206e88d..f0755333c8f6ac510ae4b88d79211b4013a29c0b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/man/lttng-enable-event.1.txt
+++ b/doc/man/lttng-enable-event.1.txt
@@ -181,6 +181,10 @@ when creating a new event rule. If the filter expression evaluates
 to true when executed against the dynamic values of an event's fields
 when tracing, the filtering condition passes.
 
+NOTE: Make sure to **single-quote** the filter expression when running
+the command from a shell, as filter expressions typically include
+characters having a special meaning for most shells.
+
 The filter expression syntax is very similar to C language conditional
 expressions (expressions that can be evaluated by an `if` statement).