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proc.5: Simplify the example of printing out environ 

The binutils package contains a very handy utility to
print out null-byte delimited strings from a file.  This
can replace a rather complex expression with cat(1)
provided as an example for printing out /proc/[pid]/environ.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ Thus, to print out the environment of process 1, you would do:
.nf
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.RB "$" " (cat /proc/1/environ; echo) | tr \(aq\e000\(aq \(aq\en\(aq"
.RB "$" " strings /proc/1/environ"
.fi
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.in