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but that's not -CS's fault, as it prints 6 without -CS as well. Or am I missing something still?

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Re^10: unpacking wmic command's unicode output
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 12, 2008 at 21:26 UTC

    Ok, I'll cede that while it has an effect (data from STDIN should be considered decoded), saying it's harmful is incorrect.

    However, it doesn't fix the problem it's suppose to fix. As a solution, it's useless and therefore wrong.

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      As a solution, it's useless and therefore wrong.

      Hm. That's a bit strong. As a solution, it produces the desired result. Ie. The data in the file is sans unicoding.

      The fact that the -CS isn't actually responsible for that--nor even perl itself directly--doesn't detract from the usability of the solution to produce desired result.

      As it turns out, wmic process | perl -pe1 > file also produces the desired result, and as its 3 characters shorter I guess that makes it a superiour solution. I would have suggested that; had I thought to have tried it.

      It turns out that it just going via a pipe that causes wmic.exe to produce ansi output rather than unicode, so a simple wmic process | tee > file works.

      And it's even shorter.

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        I suspect that wmic always outputs the same thing, but that tee uses ReadFileA forcing a recoding to "ANSI".
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        Why does Perl leave double CRs? 
        C:>wmic diskdrive where "model = 'HGST HTS725050A7E630 ATA Device'" ge
+t index | perl -pe1 >x3.txt

 8:54:20.49  C:\Users\pwatson
C:>odd x3.txt
000000    49    6e    64    65    78    20    20    0d    0d    0a    
+30    20    20    20    20    20
         I   n   d   e   x          \r  \r  \n   0
000010    20    0d    0d    0a    0d    0d    0a
            \r  \r  \n  \r  \r  \n

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