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Commands by pfredrik

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perl -i -pe 's/\xef\xbb\xbf//g' <file>
2009-09-15 11:22:43
User: pfredrik
Functions: perl
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Fix UTF-8 text files misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 due to Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

Fixes the faulty files with perl, which may exist on more platforms

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find -type f |while read a;do [ "`head -c3 -- "${a}"`" == $'\xef\xbb\xbf' ] && echo "Match: ${a}";done
2009-09-15 08:43:21
User: pfredrik
Functions: echo find read
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Find UTF-8 text files misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 due to Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

Same thing, only "head" instead of grep/egrep..

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echo sleep() begins: %TIME% && FOR /l %a IN (10,-1,1) do (ECHO 1 >NUL %as&ping -n 2 -w 1 127.0.0.1>NUL) && echo sleep() end: %TIME%
2009-08-19 13:43:09
User: pfredrik
Functions: echo
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Emulate sleep in DOS/BAT

Enable 'sleep' function in Windows environment where this does not exist, although not exact in time. (there is a delay for each ping) This is a simple way to separate commands with a time-period.

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find . -type f | grep -rl $'\xEF\xBB\xBF'
2009-08-19 13:27:09
User: pfredrik
Functions: find grep
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Find UTF-8 text files misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 due to Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

Character: "?" is the Byte Order Mark (BOM) of the Unicode Standard.

Specifically it is the hex bytes EF BB BF, which form the UTF-8 representation of the BOM,

misinterpreted as ISO 8859/1 text instead of UTF-8.

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