replace null characters in a file
 

I have a bunch of files containing null characters that I need to remove. Does anybody have an idea how to do that? Seems to me that most search utilities can only search for non-null text?

Thanks,
Philipp

Have you looked at the "gsub" argument in awk? something like this:

gsub(/\000/,"") # all nulls in each line
$0=$0 # resets fields if necessary
.... processing code goes here .....

That does it. Thanks!