On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Noam Rathaus <no...@beyondsecurity.com> wrote: > I am using: > VIM - Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Jan 15 2003 08:05:27) > > And I have a few unicode characters (unicode encoding 'bomb'/marker) at the > beginning of the file that I want to remove. > 0000000 bbef 3cbf 4421 434f 5954 4550 6820 6d74 > > I m referring to 0xbb, 0xef, 0x3c, 0xbf > > I would to remove them, but opening the file with vim doesn't show them - as > they are markers it hides. > > Can anyone help me get rid of them? > > Any solution (not just using VIM) would be great. >
try this one: perl -i.bak -0777 -pe 's/^\xbb\xef\x3c\xbf//' file.txt it will also create a backup file with .bak extension see perldoc perlrun Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/blog.html Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/ Test Automation Tips http://szabgab.com/test_automation_tips.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
