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

Based on sed's solution of Anonymous, sed -i '1s/^/\xef\xbb\xbf/' foo adds the BOM to the UTF-8 encoded file foo. Usefull is that it also converts ASCII files to UTF8 with BOM