title: Remove all binary characters from a file
body: <p>Occasionally, I have a hard time manipulating data in a CSV file because of the following error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Binary file (standard input) matches
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I researched several articles online but cannot seem to find one that helps me remove all of the binary characters or elements from a CSV file. </p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, I do not know where to start with this.</p>
  
  <p>If I run the 'file' command on the file, I get the following output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode text, with very long lines, with CRLF, CR line terminators
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The second from last line in the file prints as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"???? ?????, ???? ???",????,"?????, ????",???,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,* Home,email@address.com,,
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The second line in the file prints as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,* ,email@address.com,,
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This file contains too many lines to open in Excel or a GUI, "Save as..." and remove the binary elements that way.</p>
  
  <p>Please help me. Thank you!</p>