How can I find all UTF-16 encoded text files in a directory tree with a Unix command?
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I want to use a Unix shell command to find all UTF-16 encoded files (containing the UTF-16 Byte Order Mark (BOM)) in a directory tree. Is there a command that I can use?
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Though you asked to find the BOM, using might even give you results when such BOM is not present. From : If a file does not match any of the entries in the magic file, it is examined to see if it seems to be a text file. ASCII, ISO-8859-x, non-ISO 8…
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