Impossible to open resulting txt file with standard text file editor

[moocan]

Hello,

Thanks you for this useful script.
But it's impossible to open the resulting wireless-info.txt with any text editor as pluma or geany.

file -bi wireless-info.txt 
application/octet-stream; charset=binary

Only way to see the contents is using cat inside terminal which is not the simpler way to read it.

Edit:
Found a workaround:
cat wireless-info.txt | tr -d '\000' > wireless-info-new.txt

Kind Regards

[wildmanne39]

Hi moocan, what OS version are you using? I use pluma often to open the file and I have used gedit for years so I am not sure why you are having this issue, we did just make a couple of updates to the script but not concerning the issue that you have.

[moocan]

@wildmanne39

Hello, thank you for your answer.
I have an Ubuntu Mate 18.04 and 20.04 and wireless-info generates an application/octet-stream; charset=binary each time, so I con't open resulting file with pluma or gedit saying that they can't detect detect the character encoding.

Could not open the file /../../wireless-info.txt.
pluma has not been able to detect the character encoding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character encoding from the menu and try again.

I have in the choice Automatically detected, UTF-8 (current locale), ISO-8859-15 (Western), ...

I need to do cat wireless-info.txt | tr -d '\000' > wireless-info-new.txt to be able to open the new wireless-info-new.txt with any text editor.

Now that I know what to do ... all is fine.

Regards