pargs(1)




NAME

     pargs - print  process  arguments,  environment   variables,
     or auxiliary vector


SYNOPSIS

     pargs [-aceFx] [pid | core] ...


DESCRIPTION

     The pargs utility examines a target process or process  core
     file and prints arguments, environment variables and values,
     or the process auxiliary vector.

     pargs outputs unprintable characters as escaped octal in the
     format \xxx, unless the character is  one of the  characters
     specified  in the "Escape Sequences" section of  formats(5),
     in which case the character is  printed as specified in that
     section.

     pargs attempts to be sensitive to the locale of  the  target
     process.  If the target process and the pargs process do not
     share a common character encoding, pargs attempts to  employ
     the  iconv(3C)  facility  to generate a printable version of
     the extracted  strings. In the event that such a  conversion
     is impossible, strings are displayed as 7-bit ASCII.


OPTIONS

     The following options are supported:

     -a    Prints  process  arguments  as  contained  in   argv[]
           (default).

     -c    Treats strings  in the target process as  though  they
           were  encoded in 7-bit ASCII, regardless of the locale
           of the target. The use of iconv(3C) is suppressed.

     -e    Prints process environment  variables  and  values  as
           pointed  at  by  the  _environ symbol or by pr_envp in
           /proc/pid/psinfo.

     -F    Force. Grabs the target process even if  another  pro-
           cess has control.

     -x    Prints process auxiliary vector.


OPERANDS

     The following operands are supported:

     pid   Process ID list.

     core  Process core file.


EXIT STATUS

     The following exit values are returned:

     0     Successful operation.

     non-zero
           An error has occurred (such as no such  process,  per-
           mission denied, or invalid option).


FILES

     /proc/pid/*
           Process information and control files.


ATTRIBUTES

     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWesu (32-bit)            |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    |                             | SUNWesxu (64-bit)           |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Interface Stability         | Evolving                    |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO

     proc(1),  iconv(3C),   proc(4),   ascii(5),   attributes(5),
     environ(5), formats(5)


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