One can pipe it to an expression for viewing purposes: sed $'s/\x1f/,/g; s/\x1e/\\\n/g; s/\x04//g' awk 'BEGIN { RS="\036"; FS="\037"; OFS="," } { sub(

One can pipe it to an expression for viewing purposes: sed $'s/\x1f/,/g; s/\x1e/\\\n/g; s/\x04//g' awk 'BEGIN { RS="\036"; FS="\037"; OFS="," } { sub(/\004$/, ""); $1=$1; print }'