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May 13, 20231 min read

Fix [wsl --help | more] & [wsl --help | Select-String] in PowerShell

By default wsl outputs UTF-16LE. This causes issues when piping output to more or Select-String. This post describes a fix. TL;DR Set...

Apr 26, 20231 min read

wsl error: <3>WSL (8) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:370: getpwuid(0) failed 2

This post shows a workaround to get WSL working again if you see an effort that starts with "Processing fstab with mount -a failed."...