Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

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The /proc directory contains several files and directories. You can view most files in /proc and their subdirectories with cat, less, or more. They are displayed as plain text.

Every process running on a system has a directory in /proc, named according to the process's PID.

Suppose Bash is running with PID 4295 (pgrep bash); in this case, /proc/4295 will exist. This folder will contain information about the process. The files under /proc/PID include:

• environ: This contains the environment variables associated with the process. cat /proc/4295/environ will display the environment variables passed to the process 4295.
• cwd: This is a symlink to the process's working directory.
• exe: This is a symlink to the process's executable: ...