bomstrip software package provides tool to strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install bomstrip
bomstrip is installed in your system.
Make ensure the bomstrip package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bomstrip *
You will get with bomstrip package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | bomstrip |
| Version | 09-08-16 |
| Description | tool to strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files |
| Sub Section | Text |