doc/man: add notes about shell escaping

[lttng-tools.git] / doc / man / lttng-add-context.1.txt

diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-add-context.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-add-context.1.txt
index 26df16d2b37fb102587120dcfa6c2ec784b65b43..c201fa6a60e41c6a76eca0c9c5fbb9a16804abec 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.