I have about 500 files with trailing NUL bytes, maybe produced with
truncate -s 8M <file>
How can I cut off the zeroes?
I have about 500 files with trailing NUL bytes, maybe produced with truncate -s
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I have about 500 files with trailing NUL bytes, maybe produced with
truncate -s 8M <file>
How can I cut off the zeroes?
This perl script should do it:
This will keep all NULs within the file, remove any at the end, and save the result into
<original filename>_fixed.Script explanation:
$/=undeftells perl to operate on the whole file rather than splitting it into lines;$_=<>loads the file;s|\0+||removes any string of NULs at the end of the loaded file ‘string’; andprintoutputs the result. The rest is standard Bash file redirection.