perl -MData::Dump -MFile::Slurp -e " dd scalar read_file shift, { qw/ binmode :raw / }; " AnyKindOfInputFile > ThatFilesBytesAsPerlAsciiCode.pl #### $ perl -MFile::BOM -MData::Dump -e " dd \%File::BOM::enc2bom " { # tied Readonly::Hash "iso-10646-1" => "\xFE\xFF", "UCS-2" => "\xFE\xFF", "UTF-16BE" => "\xFE\xFF", "UTF-16LE" => "\xFF\xFE", "UTF-32BE" => "\0\0\xFE\xFF", "UTF-32LE" => "\xFF\xFE\0\0", "UTF-8" => "\xEF\xBB\xBF", "utf8" => "\xEF\xBB\xBF", }