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From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ok, i've got a question...
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Date: 25 Sep 90 19:23:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: calvin@sequent.UUCP's message of 25 Sep 90 14:43:39 GMT


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?

tr without any options will do it.

(it's a bug ... it's a feature ...)


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