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Article #1234Re: ok, i've got a question...
From: Larry Wall
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 18:59
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 1990 18:59
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In article <42900@sequent.UUCP> calvin@sequent.UUCP (Calvin Goodrich) writes:
: ...for the unix.gods out there. i have a file that has a whole mess of
: null characters in it ('bout 1/2 a meg). is there any way (preferably
: a shell script) to strip them off?
If your tr works like mine, you can just say
tr '' '' <foo >bar
Other possibilities:
sed '' <foo >bar
perl -pe 's/\0//g' <foo >bar
Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jpl-devvax!lwall From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: ok, i've got a question... Message-ID: <9651@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 25 Sep 90 18:59:26 GMT References: <42900@sequent.UUCP> Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 16