Identifying and removing null characters in UNIX
- by fahdshariff
I have a text file containing unwanted null characters. When I try to view it in I see ^@ symbols, interleaved in normal text. How can I:
a) Identify which lines in the file contains null characters? I have tried grepping for \0 and \x0, but this did not work.
b) Remove the null characters? Running strings on the file cleaned it up, but I'm just…