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A. M. Kruczkowski writes:
> A brief observation that on my system, cat of /proc/<pid>/cmdline gives
> the cmdline minus spaces between the arguments. Is this correct,
> is my system in need of an upgrade somewhere, or is it an error?
>
> Alex

There is something between the arguments:

$ cat /proc/self/cmdline | od -c
0000000 c a t \0 / p r o c / s e l f / c
0000020 m d l i n e
0000026

You would generally have to use a tool like od to see the nulls ('\0')
between the arguments.


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