Remove multiple BOMs from a file

Question

I am using a Javascript file that is a concatenation of other JavaScript files.

Unfortunately, the person who concatenated these JavaScript files together did not us

Answer 1

fetch BOM files

grep -rIlo $’^\xEF\xBB\xBF’ ./

remove BOM files

grep -rIlo $’^\xEF\xBB\xBF’ . | xargs sed –in-place -e ‘s/\xef\xbb\xbf//’

exclude .svn dir

grep -rIlo –exclude-dir=”.svn” $’^\xEF\xBB\xBF’ . | xargs sed –in-place -e ‘s/\xef\xbb\xbf//’

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