Greetings....

I'm looking for the command and syntax to search files, several actually, that will find the string pattern "\0;" and delete it. I have over 200 files to change

Thanx

Check out the "grep" command which lets you search files and find strings. When you say "delete it" are you talking about the deleting the record, the file, or the "\0;" string in each record?

Have two files first.sh, second.sed as below.

first.sh
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#!/bin/ksh
for i in *.txt
{
echo $i
/usr/bin/sed -f second.sed <$i> temp1
mv -f temp1 $i
}
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second.sed
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s/\\0;//
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replace *.txt with files you want to pick in first.sh
then execute first.sh