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Finding NULL filled files - Onii - Feb 19, 2017
so i just revisited some of my old software and found out most of it was corrupted
a month ago or so i backed up my data from a dying hard disk, it was at about 10% health
now i'm left with thousands of files and i don't know which are corrupted and which are not
the corrupted files are filled with zeros, i don't mean the number zero but \0 characters, 0x0, null
they have the same size they had before corruption, they are not empty
any way to find all such files so i can save up some space? thanks
* - archangel.dmitry - Feb 19, 2017
You should be able to do it Linux by enumerating the files and and checking for presence of certain strings.