How Do You Remove Null Values in Unix?
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How do you remove a null character in Unix?

A large number of unwanted NUL characters, say one every other byte, indicates that the file is encoded in UTF-16 and that you should use iconv to convert it to UTF-8. If the lines in the file end with rn 00 then what works is to delete the n 00 then replace the r with n.

How do I remove a null character?

Using the -d switch we delete a character. A backslash followed by three 0’s represents the null character. This just deletes these characters and writes the result to a new file.

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