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Often I've seen terminal commands that contain a perfectly vertical keyboard character but I can't for the life of me figure out what the keystroke is ?!?!?!
For instance, this terminal command I copied and pasted ...
ls -lct /etc | tail -1 | awk '{print $6, $7}'
What is the keystroke for the vertical line between "etc and tail" and between "-1 and awk" ??
Thank YOU !!!

On my keyboard it's shift+\

wyrdoak wrote:On my keyboard it's shift+\

AWESOME !!! Thank YOU !!!

JoeBingo wrote:...the vertical line...

It's called the pipe symbol, by the way.

Thanks for the link for the pipe symbol. I had no idea of it's meaning or purpose.

You aren't the only one to wonder about this...on my keyboard it's displayed as two short vertical lines one atop the other, which confused me for the longest time. I remember staring down at it for a solid five minutes once and muttering, "Umm, it really isn't here. 'Full-size keyboard' my butt!"

eric k wrote:You aren't the only one to wonder about this...on my keyboard it's displayed as two short vertical lines one atop the other, which confused me for the longest time. I remember staring down at it for a solid five minutes once and muttering, "Umm, it really isn't here. 'Full-size keyboard' my butt!"

Yes, my laptop keyboard shows it with the two short lines but my wireless external keyboard shows the pipe. I guess that is why my typing teacher didn't want you looking at your hand while you type to the point that all the keys in class were blank.