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| author | Krzysztof Konopko <krzysztof.konopko@gmail.com> | 2013-03-28 10:19:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2013-04-01 14:53:45 +0200 |
| commit | 1391278030f64c7dd96f4535c1056321f690e094 (patch) | |
| tree | e52856c341f0c18e7a2c0caaf43f41e77d91b10e /man5 | |
| parent | b6bc918e7a808d71470142085262789e34f60499 (diff) | |
proc.5: Simplify the example of printing out environ
The binutils package contains a very handy utility to
print out null-byte delimited strings from a file. This
can replace a rather complex expression with cat(1)
provided as an example for printing out /proc/[pid]/environ.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/proc.5 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index b7cda376..725873eb 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Thus, to print out the environment of process 1, you would do: .nf .ft CW -.RB "$" " (cat /proc/1/environ; echo) | tr \(aq\e000\(aq \(aq\en\(aq" +.RB "$" " strings /proc/1/environ" .fi .ft P .in |