Elegant way to search for UTF-8 files with BOM?
What about this one simple command which not just finds but clears the nasty BOM? :)
find . -type f -exec sed '1s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//' -i {} \;I love "find" :)
Warning The above will modify binary files which contain those three characters.
If you want just to show BOM files, use this one:
grep -rl $'\xEF\xBB\xBF' .
The best and easiest way to do this on Windows:
Total Commander → go to project's root dir → find files (Alt + F7) → file types *.* → Find text "EF BB BF" → check 'Hex' checkbox → search
And you get the list :)
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0r awk ' /^\xEF\xBB\xBF/ {print FILENAME} {nextfile}'Most of the solutions given above test more than the first line of the file, even if some (such as Marcus's solution) then filter the results. This solution only tests the first line of each file so it should be a bit quicker.