tail -c +32 outputs its input minus the first 31 bytes. (Yes, the argument is off by one.) To edit a file in place, use sponge in a loop, or if you don't have it and don't want to bother, do its job in the shell:

for x in /foo/*; do tail -c +32 "$x" | sponge "$x"; done
for x in /foo/*; do tail -c +32 "$x" >"$x.new" && mv "$x.new" "$x"; done

If the commands are interrupted for whatever reason (e.g. a power failure), it might be hard to figure out where you left off. Writing the new files to a separate directory would make things easier.

mkdir /foo.tmp
cd /foo
for x in *; do tail -c +42 -- "$x" >"/foo.tmp/$x" && rm -- "$x"; done
mv /foo.tmp/* /foo
rmdir /foo.tmp

If the files are really large (as in, large enough that having two copies of even a single one is a problem), you can use one of the techniques mentioned in this thread.

tail -c +32 outputs its input minus the first 31 bytes. (Yes, the argument is off by one.) To edit a file in place, use sponge in a loop, or if you don't have it and don't want to bother, do its job in the shell:

for x in /foo/*; do tail -c +32 "$x" | sponge "$x"; done
for x in /foo/*; do tail -c +32 "$x" >"$x.new" && mv "$x.new" "$x"; done

If the commands are interrupted for whatever reason (e.g. a power failure), it might be hard to figure out where you left off. Writing the new files to a separate directory would make things easier.

mkdir /foo.tmp
cd /foo
for x in *; do tail -c +42 -- "$x" >"/foo.tmp/$x" && rm -- "$x"; done
mv /foo.tmp/* /foo
rmdir /foo.tmp

If the files are really large (as in, large enough that having two copies of even a single one is a problem), you can use one of the techniques mentioned in this thread.