log file recognized as binary instead of text file

[camattelaer]

Hi

I just noticed that the log files are being recognized as binary in the file system due to ^@ being printed on the second line, eg:

This makes it more difficult to search with eg grep in the files because it does not output the found pattern, only that is found in the binary file:

Is there a specific reason why this ^@ is being printed? If i cat an output file, it does not show btw:

Kind regards

Charles-Alexandre