Eliminating binary from a text file

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

tr does what strings does - clears only the characters, not the full bad
line. Not what I wanted.
but now that I know what data I have there, I can clear it using any script
(back to Dov's solution).

Thanks everyone!

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
wrote:

> +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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