pargs(1)                                                           User Commands                                                          pargs(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       pargs [-aceFlx] [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 char-
       acter 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 process has control.

       -l       Displays the arguments as a single command line. The command line is printed in a manner suitable for interpretation  by  /bin/sh.
                If  the  arguments  contain  unprintable  characters, or if the target process is in a different locale, a warning message is dis-
                played. The resulting command line may not be interpreted correctly by /bin/sh.

       -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, permission denied, or invalid option).

FILES

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

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWesu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability          |Evolving                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

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

SunOS 5.10                                                          13 Apr 2004                                                           pargs(1)