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+function chef-client {
+  <#  
+  .SYNOPSIS
+  A chef-client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by Chef.
+  .DESCRIPTION
+  When a chef-client is run, it will perform all of the steps that are required to bring the node into the expected state, including:
+
+  Registering and authenticating the node with the Chef server
+  Building the node object
+  Synchronizing cookbooks
+  Compiling the resource collection by loading each of the required cookbooks, including recipes, attributes, and all other dependencies
+  Taking the appropriate and required actions to configure the node
+  Looking for exceptions and notifications, handling each as required
+  .EXAMPLE
+  chef-client --help
+  #>
+  [CmdletBinding()]
+  param (
+    [parameter(ValueFromRemainingArguments=$true)] $All
+  )
+
+  # Take each input string, escape any \ ' or " character in it and then surround it with "s.
+  # This is to defeat the second-level parsing performed by the MSVCRT argument parser used
+  # by ruby which only understands \ ' and ".
+  #
+  # This is a fuster cluck.  Don't touch this unless you are sure you understand regexes.
+  # The \\ is to request a literal \ match in a regex.
+  # The "" is to inject a literal " character in a PS string surrounded by "s.
+  # The replacement pattern must be '\$1' and not "\$1" because $1 is not a real variable
+  # that needs substituting - it's a capture group that's interpreted by the regex engine.
+  # \ in the replacement pattern does not need to be escaped - it is literally substituted.
+  $Transformed = $All | foreach { '"' + ( $_ -replace "([\\'""])",'\$1' ) + '"' }
+  & "ruby.exe" "chef-client" $Transformed
+}
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