Removing 'bad'chrs from a file

[Sandy Harris]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> Or, is there a way to just fix/remove the 'bad chrs' from a file? All
> [reasonable] {gotta watch out on this list :-) } ideas welcome.

You can do that with tr(1). You'd have to know what the
app means by "bad chrs", though.

tr -d '\0' < infile > outfile

should delate (-d) all null characters. To replace them with
newlines

tr '\0'  '\012' < infile > outfile

That's off the top of my head, quite likely has syntax
errors, but it should give you the idea. Check the man
page and it should be easy from there.