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How to use sed to remove null bytes?

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Mar 15, 202668418 views
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Problem

What is the incantation to remove null bytes from a file? I'm trying: but that is stripping out strings of zeroes. seems to have no effect. I'm trying to do this in a script, so I'm not sure the trick will work.

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s/\000//g

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