On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:44:39AM -0500, Donovan Niesen wrote:
> Anybody know what the ^@ character is in a text file when I view it using
> cat -A?  I have a dumb Windows program that is creating a text file and
> using these characters as whitespace.  I'm trying to write a Python script
> to strip them out but I don't know what the heck they are.

"od -c $file"

florin

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