How can I insert control character ^@ into a file using sed in Linux?
Question
I am running below command on file xyz .
sed -i 's/abc \"/abc \^@\"/g' xyz
But I am not getting desired output.
If I manually typing ctrl + v + @ it is visible in vi editor as ^@ but not with above command output.
1 answers
solution1
4 ACCPTED 2017-01-21 11:53:22
The character you are referring to is a null byte ( 0x00 ). In sed you need to use \\x00 for it:
sed 's/abc \"/abc \x00\"/' file
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