Windows-Safe Grep Skill

Problem

On Windows, paths containing backslash-space sequences (e.g., D:\Projects\Vibe Code\isometricid) can cause ripgrep to fail because:

• The \n in isometricid is interpreted as a newline character
• Combined with the following ul, this creates a reference to the reserved Windows device name nul
• Error: rg: D:\Projects\Vibe Code\isometricid\nul: Incorrect function. (os error 1)

Solution

Use bash commands with proper path quoting to work around this Windows-specific issue:

Safe Grep Command Pattern

rg --fixed-strings "SEARCH_TERM" "/d/Projects/Vibe Code/isometricid"