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29th May 2021

TIL Finding CSV files that start with a BOM using ripgrep — For [sqlite-utils issue 250](https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/250) I needed to locate some test CSV files that start with a UTF-8 BOM.

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Posted 29th May 2021 at 5:23 am

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