From f6792be2a87bc65bd5274b1231090d6e271ef660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve Nyemba <nyemba@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 13:34:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] bug fix: decoding ...

---
 smart/cmd/__init__.py    | 5 +++--
 smart/folder/__init__.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/smart/cmd/__init__.py b/smart/cmd/__init__.py
index 944abb4..25807c4 100644
--- a/smart/cmd/__init__.py
+++ b/smart/cmd/__init__.py
@@ -63,8 +63,9 @@ def read(**args) :
         elif 'cmd' in args :
             cmd = args['cmd']
         if cmd :
-            handler = subprocess.Popen(cmd,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE)			
-            stream = str(handler.communicate()[0]).replace("b'",'')
+            handler = subprocess.Popen(cmd,shell=True,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,encoding='utf-8')			
+            stream = str(handler.communicate()[0]) #.decode('utf-8') #.replace("b'",'')
+
             
         return _parser (stream) if _parser else stream
 
diff --git a/smart/folder/__init__.py b/smart/folder/__init__.py
index a50df84..7d6d575 100644
--- a/smart/folder/__init__.py
+++ b/smart/folder/__init__.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class Util :
 
 def read(**args):
     """
-    The path can also take in regular expressions
+    The path can also take in regular expressions, this only works for linux based systems.
     """
     cmd = {"size":"du -sh :path","content":"find :path -type f -exec md5sum {} + | sort -z|md5sum"}
     r = {}