How can I remove the BOM from a UTF-8 file?

Question

I have a file in UTF-8 encoding with BOM and want to remove the BOM. Are there any linux command-line tools to remove the BOM from the file?

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Answer 1

Joshua Pinter's answer works correctly on mac so I wrote a script that removes the BOM from all files in a given folder, see here.

It can be used like follows:

Remove BOM from all files in current directory: rmbom .

Print all files with a BOM in the current directory: rmbom . -a

Only remove BOM from all files in current directory with extension txt or cs: rmbom . -e txt -e cs