Eliminating binary from a text file

[Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda]

Amos, we have a winner!!! Exactly what I looked for!
Thanks
Orna

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Then how about:
>
> "grep -v -P -a '\x00' file"?
>
> Based on http://superuser.com/a/612336/27453. Explantion of the flags:
>
> -v - inverse - print NON-matching lines
> -P - use Perl regexp
> -a - force treating the file as a text file
>
> On 21 July 2015 at 13:39, Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:
>
>>  On 21/07/15 00:22, Boruch Baum 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'.
>>
>>
>>  Read the original question again. She needs to eliminate the entire line
>> where a corruption happened, not just the corrupt bytes themselves.
>>
>> Shachar
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