Can't offer copious elucidation, but
> Can somebody explain the subject line to me please. I have read it in
> a linux training document and it is not doing what the document says
> it should do. What I do not understand and do not know where to find
> documentation on it is the '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n' part. I know tr
> but what is '\verb|\|000'? And the use of |\|?
>
> The whole command according to the document is
>
> cat /proc/$$/environ | tr '\verb|\|000' '\verb|\|\n'
cat /proc/$$/environ | tr '\verb|\|\000' 'verb|\|\n'
^
works.
And why not simply cat (...) | tr '\000' '\n'
without the \verb part.
\verb|\| must be, obviously, the unchanged part, but it's superfluous.
I would need also some elucidation about the \verb part, didn't find anything.
MH
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