BOMs Away!!! 
Make BOMs go away because they are ugly and ruining my jekyll site
BOMs biting your blog’s beauty?
If you see this evil character:

or perhaps if you inspect a blank spot that is not supposed to be there and you see
𐃁
this is the ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE character, it is injected most often by windows notepad, you can open with Notepad++ and use the encoding:
“Encode in UTF-8 without BOM”,
that will remove the BOMs, there are other methods as well, perhaps the simplest is using sed to remove all BOMs from some markdown files in a directory
sed -i '1 s/\xEF\xBB\xBF//' *.md
or in VIM you can set nobomb:
:set nobomb
but I ran across this shellscript and immediately wanted it installed on all my machines, so why not give it a repo and a quick website so this thing can be readily available.
This is a utility to remove BOMs
Originally seen here
Enrico Maria Crisostomo named it bom-remove, but that’s a little dry for my taste. How about something like BOMBS AWAY! Remove caps, the B and space and you got bomsaway
Examples
Assuming the script is in your $PATH and it’s called bomsaway, you can “clean” a bunch of files invoking it this way:
$ bomsaway file-to-clean ...
If you want to clean the files in an entire directory, you can use the following syntax:
$ bomsaway -r dir-to-clean ...
If your sed installation is not in your $PATH or you have to use an alternate version, you can invoke the script with the following syntax:
$ bomsaway -s path/to/sed file-to-clean ...
If you want to clean a directory in which other file systems might be mounted, you can use the -x option so that the script does not descend them:
$ bomsaway -xr dir-to-clean ...
Install
oneliner (it’s how I install myself so I’m leaving this up top)
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshuacox/bomsaway/master/bootstrapbomsaway.sh|bash
manual install
just copy the wanted files somewhere into your path
alternatively, if you want to install them all to /usr/local/bin/, then
sudo make install
Ansible install
or you can add hosts to a bomsaway list in your ansible hosts file like so
examplehost1 ansible_ssh_port=2222 ansible_ssh_host=1.2.3.4 ansible_ssh_user=root
examplehost2 ansible_ssh_port=2222 ansible_ssh_host=1.2.3.5 ansible_ssh_user=root
[bomsaway]
exampleHost1
exampleHost2
and use ansible to install to those hosts
make play
look at the included Makefile (as you should every Makefile for that matter before you sudo make anything)
it merely uses the install command to copy the scripts to /usr/local/bin with mode 0755