From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 18 21:57:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82ED516A420 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:57:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from smtp1.suscom.net (smtp1.suscom.net [64.78.119.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 617F743D49 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:57:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from localhost (smtp1 [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.suscom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCED1D0004 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:59:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtp1.suscom.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26612-08 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:59:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from seibercom.net (ip148.217.susc.suscom.net [216.45.217.148]) by smtp1.suscom.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 21A011D0002 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:59:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (boss [192.168.0.4]) by seibercom.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1ILv2lE084837 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:57:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:57:05 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: gerard@seibercom.net Organization: Seibercom In-Reply-To: <1140298493.8388.12.camel@localhost> References: <20060218161226.A611.GERARD@seibercom.net> <1140298493.8388.12.camel@localhost> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060218165306.C5D2.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.24.01 [en] X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on seibercom.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at suscom.net Subject: Re: Removing BOM from UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:57:05 -0000 Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > It shouldn't be writing any new files; it prints the filtered text to > stdout. > > Ben OK, then that is the problem. I need it to actually write the file. It could either rename the old file and then rewrite it which would be nice, or just over write the old file. The BOM is just the first three characters in the file. I am assuming that it would not be removing anything else in the file. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net