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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to remove null characters from file? Post 302180979 by siegfried on Tuesday 1st of April 2008 04:36:57 PM
Old 04-01-2008
How to remove null characters from file?
I'm trying to remove the null characters from a file and copy it to std output.

I'm using emacs and I create the following one line bash file (followed by the error messages):
Code:
sed -e 's/^@//' <ConfigItemReplicator.install.log
/usr/bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/usr/bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Of course, in emacs the "^@" is really a single null character.

Well I think bash is seeing the null character and terminating the string.

So this is not working! how do I remove my nulls?
Thanks,
Siegfried
Siegfried
 

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