[commitlint] SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token on Windows

Node.js v18.14.1
PS D:\2WarRoom\2023TCC\Week11\Learn\demo_commit_convernsion> echo "test pre-commit" | npx commitlint
D:\2WarRoom\2023TCC\Week11\Learn\demo_commit_convernsion\commitlint.config.js:1
  m


SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token
    at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:73:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1176:20)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1218:27)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1308:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1117:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:958:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1141:19)
    at module.exports (D:\2WarRoom\2023TCC\Week11\Learn\demo_commit_convernsion\node_modules\import-fresh\index.js:32:59)
    at loadJsSync (D:\2WarRoom\2023TCC\Week11\Learn\demo_commit_convernsion\node_modules\cosmiconfig\dist\loaders.js:17:12)
    at #loadConfiguration (D:\2WarRoom\2023TCC\Week11\Learn\demo_commit_convernsion\node_modules\cosmiconfig\dist\Explorer.js:92:30) {   
  filepath: 'D:\\2WarRoom\\2023TCC\\Week11\\Learn\\demo_commit_convernsion\\commitlint.config.js'
}

Fixed

• In, step create file commitlint.config.js

echo "module.exports = {extends: ['@commitlint/config-conventional']}" > commitlint.config.js

• check commitlint.config.js encoding is UTF-8 (On Windows default UTF-16LE

Reference

• fix: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token. commit-msg run error. · Issue #3588 · conventional-changelog/commitlint (github.com)