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(This product is available under a free and permissive license, but needs financial support to sustain its continued improvements. In addition to maintenance and stability there are many desirable features yet to be added.)
Fix files "infected" by UTF-8 bom character. This script will remove the BOM character at the beginning of each files.
This character purpose is to force encode files in UTF-8 by adding a special character at the beginning of the file. Issues appears with this character on a web server because it might be interpreted (e.g : PHP files are not interpreted anymore)
php bomreplacer.php [[directory] [comma_separated_extensions]]
optional directory (current directory if not specified) directory to recursively "heal" optional comma_separated_extensions (all if not specified) allowed extension a file must have to be "healed" (comma (,) separated)
php bomreplacer.php /home/www
Will fix all files in /home/www folder
php bomreplacer.php /home/www php,css
Will fix all PHP and CSS files in /home/www folder but will leave the other files as-is.
docker run --rm -ti -v "$PWD":/src femtopixel/utf8-bom-fixer
Will fix all files in your current path. You can call bomreplacer if you want to pass specific parameters
docker run --rm -ti -v "$PWD:/src" femtopixel/utf8-bom-fixer bomreplacer /src php,css
Will fix all PHP and CSS files in current directory but will leave the other files as-is.