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BOM: Byte order mark
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
The UTF-8 representation of the BOM is the (hexadecimal) byte sequence 0xEF,0xBB,0xBF. The Unicode Standard permits the BOM in UTF-8, but does not require or recommend its use.

I have 700 log files copied from Windows PC, all of them encoded in UTF-8 with BOM. I need to remove BOM (0xEF,0xBB,0xBF) from the beginning of each file. How can I accomplish this task in Trisquel? I'm attaching a sample text file encoded in UTF-8 with BOM.

Thank you!

Sample log file

log message 1
log message 2
log message 3
log message 4
log message 5
log message 6
log message 7
log message 8
log message 9
log message 10
log message 11
log message 12
log message 13
log message 14
log message 15
log message 16
log message 17
log message 18
log message 19
log message 20
log message 21
log message 22

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