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Created October 11, 2011 21:54
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Fixing the BOM (byte order marker) at the beginning of utf8 files.
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#!/usr/bin/env sh
# BOM=`echo -ne '\xEF\xBB\xBF'`
# echo "$BOM$(cat $1)" > $1
(printf '\xEF\xBB\xBF'; cat $1) > $1.enc; mv -f $1.enc $1
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