Removing BOM from UTF-8

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Sun Feb 19 04:06:30 PST 2006


J. Erik Heinz wrote:

> use a for-loop in your shell:
> 
> # bash
> # cd to/your/directory
> # for i in *; do 
> #  nobom.sh $i > $i.new
> # done
> 
> this will take all your files in your directory and proceed each one it 
> with nobom.sh, which then will write it to new file. 
> 
> Be sure that your perlscript points to your perl installation on your
> system. You can use 'which perl' to get the location of your perl
> installation.
> 
> Cheers Erik

Thanks! I'll give it a try when I return to work.

-- 
Gerard


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