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Depending on what you're trying to do, a viable alternative might be running the system command inside Vim to generate the locations and populating the quickfix list with the result. Here's a Neovim/Lua example for inspiration:

vim.api.nvim_create_user_command('TorgleFlidgets',
    function()
        vim.cmd.cclose()
        print('🐰 torgling the flidgets ...')
        local out = vim.fn.systemlist("torgle ./flidgets.txt")
        if vim.v.shell_error == 0 then
            print('nothing to see here')
            return
        end
        local files = {}
        for _, file in pairs(out) do
            local parts = {}
            for part in string.gmatch(file, "%S+") do
                table.insert(parts, part)
            end
            table.insert(files, {filename = parts[1], lnum = parts[2], col = parts[3]})
        end
        vim.fn.setqflist(files)
        vim.cmd.copen()
    end,
    {nargs = 0}
)

In this notional example, the output of torgle ./flidgets.txt looks like:

/path/to/file1.txt 25 19
/path/to/file2.txt 44 37

(In my actual case, I used some combination of awk and sed to massage the output of my system command into this format. This particular example won't work if filenames may contain whitespace.)