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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?
$ file test.xml test.xml: XML 1.0 document, UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with very long lines 
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The Unicode Standard permits the BOM in UTF-8, but does not require or recommend its use. Byte order has no meaning in UTF-8, so its only use in UTF-8 is to signal at the start that the text stream is encoded in UTF-8, or that it was converted to UTF-8 from a stream that contained an optional BOM.
How to remove BOM. If you want to remove the byte order mark from a source code, you need a text editor that offers the option of saving the mark. You read the file with the BOM into the software, then save it again without the BOM and thereby convert the coding. The mark should then no longer appear.
Download and install this powerful free text editor: Notepad++ Open the file you want to verify/fix in Notepad++ In the top menu select Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 (option without BOM) Save the file.
Open file in VIM:
vi text.xml Remove BOM encoding:
:set nobomb Save and quit:
:wq For a non-interactive solution, try the following command line:
vi -c ":set nobomb" -c ":wq" text.xml That should remove the BOM, save the file and quit, all from the command line.
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