Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:28 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > It has been suggested that a script could be written to eliminate > > the BOM from a file(s). My script writing skills suck. I have been > > unable to locate one using Google, so I was hoping that someone > > might know where I could either locate such a program, or perhaps > > give me an idea on how to script one. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > @file=<>; > $file[0] =~ s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//; > print(@file); > > That'll read a file from stdin, remove the BOM from the beginning of > the first line if it's present, and print it to stdout. > > Hope it helps. > > Ben > > -- > Termisoc Tech Officer: <http://termisoc.org/> > My Homepage: <http://benalee.co.uk/> > "People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of > thought which they have but seldom use." -- Søren Kierkegaard
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it does not appear to be working correctly. I named the file nobom.sh and put it in the same directory as the files I want to convert. I also set the program permission to 0755. typing the p[program name does nothing; I have to precede it with 'perl'. Even then, it does not appear to work correctly. In the following example, the file is parsed, but not converted. perl nobom.sh testfile Am I doing something incorrectly here? Thanks! -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://www.seibercom.net/sig/gerard.asc
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