Elegant way to search for UTF-8 files with BOM?
What about this one simple command which not just finds but clears the nasty BOM? 🙂 find . -type f -exec sed ‘1s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//’ -i {} \; I love “find” 🙂 Warning The above will modify binary files which contain those three characters. If you want just to show BOM files, use this one: grep -rl … Read more