Eliminating binary from a text file

[Amos Shapira]

+1 for "tr -d '\0' < file > newfile", based on the updated description.
But "prevention is better than a cure" - find a way to avoid this in the
first place.

On 21 July 2015 at 07:22, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum at gmx.com> wrote:

> I see that I'm late to the discussion and that your original problem has
> morphed a bit. Maybe the simplest and oldest solution is the `tr -d'
> command. See `man tr'.
>
> On 07/20/2015 04:56 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I often have damaged text files (due to a lovely storage system). The
> files
> > are of different formats, although I can usually assume they contain
> > spaces. The files are structured as lines.
> >
> > Every once in a while, the lovely destruction (ahm....storage) system
> > inserts binary garbage to the file. I wish to fix the files by removing
> the
> > cancer without leaving any leftovers. That is, I want to lose partial
> lines.
> >
> > I tried using grep with all sorts of keys, but it did not do the trick.
> > strings catches too little - it leaves partial lines.
> > Is there an elegant  way to  do the trick line-wise?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Orna
> >
> >
> >
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