[SOLVED] What keystroke is this ??

[JoeBingo]

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 !!!

[wyrdoak]

On my keyboard it's shift+\

[JoeBingo]

On my keyboard it's shift+\

AWESOME !!! Thank YOU !!!

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

...the vertical line...

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

[JoeBingo]

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

[Oscar799]

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[eric k]

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!"

[wyrdoak]

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.