Finding files with BOM byte marks in utf-8 files

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:41 am

I was just reminded of this potential problem after discovering a third party file was causing a problem.

The easiest way to find these files (there are MANY different ways but this works for me), is to open a terminal window, cd into the top level directory you want to check i.e.

Code:

cd /home/USERNAME/Downloads/rn30

Then paste in the following into the terminal

Code:

fgrep -rl `echo -ne '\xef\xbb\xbf'` .

This will give you a list of ALL files affected but obviously you only need to look for results that are for PHP files, since it's PHP files that cause a problem.
You'll get an output in the termina like this

Code:




.......


./includes/fckeditor/editor/skins/office2003/fck_dialog_ie6.js


./includes/fckeditor/editor/skins/silver/fck_dialog_ie6.js


./includes/fckeditor/editor/skins/default/fck_dialog_ie6.js


./includes/nukesentinel.php


./includes/phpInputValidator/utf/data/confusables.php