Some program could not handle interfacing files which contains null characters and has often causes support people lots of run around to find the cause.

A simple way to identify the locations of null characters in a flat file is by using the following command. Works well each time for me. 🙂

tr ‘\0’ […]

I was tasked to get first 100 lines of records from a database dump. While searching big brother G, I found the solution here:- how to extract a range of lines from a file provided by zazzybob.

Here’s the solutions:-

You could also pipe though sed to extract the range – e.g.
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