Hello.
man 5 proc says:
> NOTES
> Many strings (i.e., the environment and command line) are in the internal format, with subfields terminated by null bytes ('\0'), so you may find that things are more readable if you use od -c or tr "\000" "\n" to read them. Alternatively, echo `cat <file>` works well.
Unfortunately, echo `cat <file>` does not actually work:
$ echo `cat /proc/$$/environ`
bash: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8XDG_SEAT_PATH=...
(note that the null byte before XDG_SEAT_PATH has been just removed
without any substitution)
I suggest that the echo `cat <file>` trick should be dropped.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
