cat_null_terminated

#!/bin/bash

help() {
   echo 'usage: cat_null_terminated file'
   echo '       cat_null_terminated --help'
   echo
   echo '   When file contains "lines" or "items" separated'
   echo '   by null values, then cat_null_terminated will'
   echo '   replace those nulls with line breaks and `cat`'
   echo '   the file out'
   echo
   echo '   Many special files under /proc contain such'
   echo '   null-separated lines.'
   echo
   echo '   see https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/29132'
   echo
   exit 1
}

[ "$1" == "--help" ] && help

cat "$1" | xargs --null --max-args=1 echo