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From: lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ok, i've got a question...
Message-ID: <42947@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 90 22:30:45 GMT
References: <42900@sequent.UUCP> <9651@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: lugnut@sequent.UUCP (Don Bolton)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <9651@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>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

AWK AWK ACKKKK :-)

awk -f filebelow <oldlist >newlist

{ for (i = 1; i <= NF; i = i + 1)
     { if (i >= NF)
	  printf("%s",$i)
     else
	  printf("%s ", $i) 
     }
printf("\n")
}

course I assume the "null" characters are just blanks here