Converting \0 to a \n

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi - I have seen some similar posts but I am a bit stumped here

below is the first line of a 'od -c filename' command. I want to change the \0 to \n

0000000 l s \0 c d - \0 c d . . \0 l s

I have tried a sed construct in a script.........

sed 's|\\0|\\n|g' filename - with no success.

If I type this at the command line the cursor shoots off to the left margin of the screen as soon as I type the second '|'

Any help most appreciated - I am sure this should not be this difficult!!

2

Check your man page for tr.

Mine says -

SunOS 5.10 Last change: 13 Aug 2003 7

User Commands tr(1)

 Unlike some previous  versions,  /usr/xpg4/bin/tr  correctly
 processes NUL characters in its input stream. NUL characters
 can be stripped by using tr -d '\\000'.

so try tr -d < (infilename) > (outfilename)

3

Hi

please disregard the comment about the cursor heading off to the left margin - my terminal emulator is playing up.

cheers