How can I re-add a unicode byte order marker in linux?

Question

I have a rather large SQL file which starts with the byte order marker of FFFE. I have split this file using the unicode aware linux split tool into 100,000 line chunks. But whe

Answer 1

Something like (backup first)):

for i in $(ls *.sql)
do
  cp "$i" "$i.temp"
  printf '\xFF\xFE' > "$i"
  cat "$i.temp" >> "$i"
  rm "$i.temp"
done