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Line continuation with line-initial | (pipe symbol) not recognized on Unix-like platforms. #1261

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PS Core now supports continuing a pipeline by placing the | at the start of the following line.

On Windows pasting such a pipeline works fine, but not on Unix-like platforms (macOS, Linux).

Environment data

PS version: 7.0.0-rc.1
PSReadline version: 2.0.0-rc1
os: Darwin MkiMac.home 19.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 19.0.0: Thu Oct 17 16:17:15 PDT 2019; root:xnu-6153.41.3~29/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
PS file version: 7.0.0.0
HostName: ConsoleHost
BufferWidth: 180
BufferHeight: 60

Steps to reproduce or exception report

On macOS or Linux, paste the following in a PowerShell terminal:

Get-Date
  | % ToUniversalTime

This works fine on Windows, but on Unix-like platforms the 2nd line is unexpectedly treated as a new command, which predictably fails:

ParserError:
Line |
   1 |   | % ToUniversalTime
     |   ^ An empty pipe element is not allowed.

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