id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
1396	remove the Unicode Byte-Order Mark (BOM)	zeev		"remove the Unicode Byte-Order Mark (BOM) from all your files...
to find them on a linux box do the following:

find /path/to/editor -type f | while read line; do hd ""$line"" | grep -q 'ef bb bf' && echo ""$line""; done > listOfBOMedFiles.txt

to remove them then:

cat listOfBOMedFiles.txt | while read line; do dd if=$line of=$line.noBOM ibs=3 skip=1; mv $line.noBOM $line; done"	Bug	closed	Normal		General		duplicate