Tix 3.32 Linux (Debian)

A very minor nuisance I just wanted to throw out there, torrents with a pipe (|) in any of the filenames in the torrent gives a 'error opening file for allocation' torrent allocation fail.

This issue has been around for a while though it was such a rare occurance to have a | in a filename it didn't matter. For some reason in the last few months I'm finding more and more torrents in the wild with a | in the filenames so I figured it was a good time to bring it up.

Please post a link to a torrent with a (|) pipe in the filename.

This torrent has pipes in filenames in the torrent.
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I created this torrent from files that I created with this software:
whatbox.ca/wiki/youtube-dlp

The software is for downloading livestreams or VOD's from platforms such as YouTube/Twitch, etc.

The VOD I partially downloaded had pipes in its name and that software put the pipes into the filenames it saved.

I created the torrent with Tixati.

I just found out that that last torrent that I linked did not actually have the real pipe character in the filenames. It was a Unicode lookalike character.

$ echo -n '｜' | xxd
00000000: efbd 9c

So, I made a new file with Tixati from files I created as I described above, but this time I tested to make sure that it was a real pipe character! I used Linux command 'xxd' to verify that it was indeed a pipe character...

$ echo -n '|' | xxd
00000000: 7c

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Just a note about those filenames... On windows systems, on windows 10 at least... Windows does not actually show the pipe character in the filename... Instead it shows a dot. There is also an illegal colon ':' character in those filenames as well which is also shown as a dot on windows. In Linux, it does show the pipe character in the filename.