Elegant way to search for UTF-8 files with BOM?

The best and easiest way to do this on Windows:

Total Commander → go to project's root dir → find files (Alt + F7) → file types *.* → Find text "EF BB BF" → check 'Hex' checkbox → search

And you get the list :)

What about this one simple command which not just finds but clears the nasty BOM? :)

find . -type f -exec sed '1s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//' -i {} \;

I love "find" :)

Warning The above will modify binary files which contain those three characters.

If you want just to show BOM files, use this one:

grep -rl $'\xEF\xBB\xBF' .