Why is my Bash script adding to the beginning of files?

Question

I\'ve written a script that cleans up .csv files, removing some bad commas and bad quotes (bad, means they break an in house program we use to transform these files) using sed:

Answer 1

To get rid of these in GNU emacs:

1. Open Emacs
2. Do a find-file-literally to open the file
3. Edit off the leading three bytes
4. Save the file

There is also a way to convert files with DOS line termination convention to Unix line termination convention.