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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:14:08 -0500
From:      "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca>
To:        "Yuri Pankov" <yuripv@gmx.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sed - remove nul lines from file
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On Tue, November 7, 2017 13:03, Yuri Pankov wrote:

>
> You want /d, not /g, to delete the *lines* which contain NUL symbols
> (that's what your subject line said).
>

Sigh.  Thank you.  That works.  However, it also deletes any line that
has even one NUL in it regardless of the presence of other non-nul
characters on the line.

What I wish to accomplish is to delete only the lines that are
completely nul.  I thought that this could be accomplished by
prefacing the match sting with the start of line anchor ^ and ending
it with the end of line anchor $ but this does not work as I expect.


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