On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, Albretch Mueller wrote:
On 2/15/23, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote: The reason why I use pipes as field delimiter is because it is an excellent meta character when you are working with filesystems. Pipes would not accepted for files or directory names for good reasons, anyway.
tim@einstein(7):~ (none)$ touch 'i|use|pipes' tim@einstein(7):~ (none)$ ls -l i*use* -rw-rw-r-- 1 tim tim 0 Feb 21 05:14 'i|use|pipes' tim@einstein(7):~ (none)$ rm i\|use\|pipes tim@einstein(7):~ (none)$ AFAIR only / and nul are prohibited in file names.