diff --git a/_docs/090_hooks.md b/_docs/090_hooks.md
index 967d190..609c0ca 100644
--- a/_docs/090_hooks.md
+++ b/_docs/090_hooks.md
@@ -32,10 +32,15 @@ YADM_HOOK_EXIT
 : The exit status of the yadm command
 
 YADM_HOOK_FULL_COMMAND
-: The yadm command with all command line arguments
+: The yadm command with all command line arguments (parameters are space
+  delimited, and any space, tab or backslash will be escaped with a
+  backslash). An example of parsing this variable with Bash can be found
+  [here][parse-example].
 
 YADM_HOOK_REPO
 : The path to the yadm repository
 
 YADM_HOOK_WORK
 : The path to the work-tree
+
+[parse-example]: https://github.com/yadm-dev/yadm/blob/master/contrib/hooks/parsing_full_command_example/pre_log