The attached patches use virBufferEscapeShell in virsh's virCmd and eliminate qemuMonitorEscapeShell so we have only one function that does the shell escaping. Cheers, -- Guido Guido Günther (3): virBufferEscapeShell: Emit quotes for the empty string Use virBufferEscapeShell in cmdEcho qemu: replace qemuMonitorEscapeShell by virBufferEscapeShell src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 49 ++++------------------------------------------ src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 1 - src/util/buf.c | 15 +++++++++---- tools/virsh.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++-------------------- 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-) -- 1.7.6.3