<0xEF> character showing up in files. How to remove them?

Question

I am doing compressing of JavaScript files and the compressor is complaining that my files have  character in them.

How can I search for these cha

Answer 1

The 'file' command shows if the BOM is present:

For example: 'file myfile.xml' displays: "XML 1.0 document, UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators"

dos2unix will remove the BOM.