If you have Git for Windows Installed do the following. Open the directory containing the files you want to remove. Left Click and select Git Bash Here. Type rm nul.json at the command prompt and hit ENTER, the file now should be removed. Delete a file named “NUL” on Windows. Open a command prompt and use these commands to first rename and then delete the NUL file. Browse other questions.

Sometimes files may be filled up with null characters that look like ^@ when you open them in a text editor. This may happen when a disk becomes full, or when you rename a logfile while an application is still writing to it.

I ran into this problem today, and I fixed it using a command called ‘tr’. This is a utility capable of translating or deleting characters from standard input/output. It means you can use it to ‘pipe’ input to it, and send the output to a new file. For example:

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Note: when using this in a script, you might need to escape that backslash.

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What does this command do? Using the -d switch we delete a character. A backslash followed by three 0’s represents the null character. This just deletes these characters and writes the result to a new file. Problem solved!