sed - remove nul lines from file

[James B. Byrne]

On Tue, November 7, 2017 12:36, Yuri Pankov wrote:
>
> Apparently, our regex engine doesn't accept the '\x' syntax, try a bit
> more complicated, but standard way :-)
>
> sed '/[[.NUL.]]/d'
>

sed /[[.NUL.]]/g INFILE > OUTFILE

gives the same result as

tr < INFILE -d '\000' > OUTFILE

sed /^[[.NUL.]]$/g INFILE > OUTFILE  has no effect whatsoever.  No
doubt because I am not specifying the record delimiters appropriately.


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