my command line doesn't like it at all

Then adapt it to your shell. Something like this might work,

perl -anF'|' -le'$f{shift@F}=[@F[1..$#F]]' pipe.txt
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but I don't use your shell so that is a guess, and I cannot test it as it wouldn't work on my shell.

This is how you'd score it:

That doesn't seem quite fair, as to use your example, you would need at least this to make it work:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
open SRC, '<pipe.txt';%prod=map{chomp;split/\|/;shift@_,[@_]}<SRC>
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Which I get to be a total of 89 and that's without the command line to run it!