* Alexander E. Patrakov:
> 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/$$/environ`
> bash: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
> LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8XDG_SEAT_PATH=...
> (note that the null byte before XDG_SEAT_PATH has been just removed
> without any substitution)
Huh. I'm surprised that it ever worked. This appears to do the job:
xargs -0 -n 1 < /proc/$$/environ
It runs echo under the covers, but I think the echo command line
syntax is such that at most, you will get no output for an "-n"
environment entry.
