Oh, crap… I really should have done that unprompted ;p
icalBuddy -npn -nrd -df "" -nc -b "- " -ps "|\t|" -po "datetime,title" -iep "datetime,title" eventsToday
Note that this is what I use right now in a bash script where I automatically put it in the clipboard for pasting - I’ve used the from: to: syntax when I was using it with templater.
Anyway, the command gives me one task on each line, but with templater they all get squished into one line.