Hi,
Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] words
on 18.02.2006 - 16:57 (-0500 Zulu-Time):
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
J. Erik Heinz wrote:
use a for-loop in your shell:
# bash
# cd to/your/directory
# for i in *; do
# nobom.sh $i $i.new
# done
this will take all your files in your directory and proceed each one it
with nobom.sh, which then will write it to new file.
Be sure that your
I have a large number of text files created in MS Word and saved in
UTF-8 format. Unfortunately, MS Word adds the BOM to each file. I need
to remove the BOM.
Information regarding BOM and UTF-8 can be found here:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:28 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
It has been suggested that a script could be written to eliminate the
BOM from a file(s). My script writing skills suck. I have been unable to
locate one using Google, so I was hoping that someone might know where I
could either locate
Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 11:28 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
It has been suggested that a script could be written to eliminate
the BOM from a file(s). My script writing skills suck. I have been
unable to locate one using Google, so I was hoping that someone
might know
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
correctly. I named the file nobom.sh and put it in the same directory
as the files I want to convert. I also set the program permission to
0755.
typing the
enjamin A'Lee wrote:
From:
Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date:
Today 03:29:34 pm
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 correctly. I named the file
Gerard Seibert wrote:
enjamin A'Lee wrote:
From:
Benjamin A'Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date:
Today 03:29:34 pm
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
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 16:14 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
As I continue to play with this, it has become apparent that the new
file is not being written, or at least I cannot locate it. Since I do
not know perl, I have no idea where to look for answers.
It shouldn't be writing any new files; it
I use this to add BOM:
http://search.cpan.org/~lyokato/UTF8BOM-1.01/lib/UTF8BOM.pm
You shouldn't be so fixed on eliminating BOMs, it's
quite a nice concept. It causes less trouble than you
think.
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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
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