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Copilot fails with error @github/copilot-linux-x64/copilot: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected

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Description

### Describe the bug

After upgrading copilot it stopped working entirely with the error

`/root/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.21.1/lib/node_modules/@github/copilot/node_modules/@github/copilot-linux-x64/copilot: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected`

### Affected version

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### Steps to reproduce the behavior

Setup information

1. In WSL 1 install mise https://mise.jdx.dev/ (Ubuntu 20.04)
2. Install node 20 or 22 via mise e.g. `mise use node@22`
3. Install github copilot via npm i -g @github/copilot either latest version or pre-release

Try to run

copilot

An error appears

`/root/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.21.1/lib/node_modules/@github/copilot/node_modules/@github/copilot-linux-x64/copilot: 1: Syntax error: ")" unexpected`

Previously it worked fine for me

### Expected behavior

copilot runs properly

### Additional context

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