Identifying and removing null characters in UNIX

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I’d use tr:

tr < file-with-nulls -d '\000' > file-without-nulls

If you are wondering if input redirection in the middle of the command arguments works, it does. Most shells will recognize and deal with I/O redirection (<, >, …) anywhere in the command line, actually.

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