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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2018-10-26 20:05:11 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2018-10-26 20:25:53 +0200
commit91433f3e5fb3877926ac4dabe38a79fe867d79f2 (patch)
treec15ac7eef48bf3303e534169f893c632f295a9ee /man5
parentd1081b23e17d074d19877471ebef0e630f67629a (diff)
downloadman-pages-91433f3e5fb3877926ac4dabe38a79fe867d79f2.tar.gz
proc.5: Remove bogus suggestion to use cat(1) to read files containing '\0'
Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 9a928b4e08..2fe0b5fb7c 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ Thus, to print out the environment of process 1, you would do:
.EE
.in
.IP
+.IP
If, after an
.BR execve (2),
the process modifies its environment
@@ -6494,7 +6495,6 @@ the internal format, with subfields terminated by null bytes (\(aq\\0\(aq),
so you
may find that things are more readable if you use \fIod \-c\fP or \fItr
"\\000" "\\n"\fP to read them.
-Alternatively, \fIecho \`cat <file>\`\fP works well.
.PP
This manual page is incomplete, possibly inaccurate, and is the kind
of thing that needs to be updated very often.