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On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:34 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it does not appear to be working=20
> correctly. I named the file nobom.sh and put it in the same directory=20
> as the files I want to convert. I also set the program permission to=20
> 0755.
>=20
> typing the p[program name does nothing; I have to precede it with=20
> 'perl'. Even then, it does not appear to work correctly. In the=20
> following example, the file is parsed, but not converted.

Sorry; try changing the first line to #!/usr/local/bin/perl

> perl nobom.sh testfile
>=20
> Am I doing something incorrectly here?

Try:

cat testfile | nobom.sh

Though the way you describe appears to work here:

$ cat bom-testfile | hd
00000000  ef bb bf 23 20 42 4f 4d  20 74 65 73 74 20 66 69  |...# BOM test =
fi|
00000010  6c 65 0a                                          |le.|
00000013
$ bomkill.pl bom-testfile | hd
00000000  23 20 42 4f 4d 20 74 65  73 74 20 66 69 6c 65 0a  |# BOM test fil=
e.|
00000010


    Ben

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