Null characters in file

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' '@' < INPUT_FILE > OUTPUT_FILE

 

I LOVE UNIX!

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