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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
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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