Ah, the joys of helping a poor soul struggling with filenames containing vertical bars. Except it wasn't an actual vertical-bar/pipe character (0x7c, which can cause grief in the shell if not escaped/quoted), but rather it was a U+FF5C "FULLWIDTH VERTICAL LINE"
Hurray for hexdump(1) output ☺
$ ls | hexdump -C
and it was clear what happened, with the UTF-8 encoding right there.
Tim Chase /
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2025-03-03 20:59:06
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