Perhaps you did not read the entire post? Some keyboards on laptops in particular Older Toshiba and some Asus models do not give you the pipe. Instead when you hit SHIFT + \ you get a > instead of a |

When this happens you can mess with all the key combos you want to try, you will not get the pipe. You have to remap the keys to get it to work correctly.

Just FYI Bob...

[Alt Gr] and ¬ (to the left of #1 on the kb) delivered my Pipe "|" symbol on a UK keyboard on both fedora and ubuntu

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

Please indicate clearly when you are reopening old threads. People often don't notice that the conversation is long dead, and may respond to people who aren't even around any more. And only post at all if you have something important to add to it, like corrections or updated information.

As often seems to happen though, I can take this opportunity to add something substantial of my own to the topic. A universal way to input the pipe character (along with many others) is with the x-windows multi-key system. My compose file shows it as being created with <multi><v><l> (or lv,VL,LV) and <multi><slash><ascicircum> and its reverse (/^,^/).

Mr. New, where are you located geographically, or better yet do you now realize that the | is a pipe symbol which you've derived from shift+\? Or, have you tried this and found that it doesn't work, even though it looked acceptable on the screen?

Mr. New's last post here was 7 years ago. He's Mr. Old News now.

But thanks for providing a perfect example of what I was just talking about.

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I was having a problem with the pipe symbol so I did a google search and this thread was right at the top. Actually turns out I had my keyboard mapped to a US layout rather than a UK layout; you'd think the british pound and euro signs on the keys would have tipped me off! A lot of the laptops we're using in this part of the world (Kenya, and Africa in general) include lots of ex-UK second-hand laptops so the wrong keyboard mappings can be a problem. Though, I suspect, that wasn't the problem markw8500 was talking about when he posted 8 years ago (wow!)

If nothing works and you even cant paste the symbol, try:
wget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar -q -O ./pipe && cat ./pipe | grep "<p>The <b>vertical bar</b>" && rm -rf ./pipe

it should output pipe symbol among others or this:

cat /root/.ssh/known_hosts

there can be pipe too

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It is the ascii character 124 which is:
(ALT+NUMLOCK)1 + 2, 4 on a keyboard interacting with the prompt.

| in html/unicode and so on

OK

Hi,

For a necro thread this would be one place that can be found to be useful; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar#Pipe

By far the best response I've seen

Depending on the linux flavor - google for your OS - setting default keyboard
For most set it for English - US.

I am using Debian 10 (Buster) on a Raspberry Pi 4 B
my command was:
sudo raspi-config

once the config program started I chose Advance Options -- Keyboard Layout

You can find what is best for your Linux OS

Hope that can point some in the correct direction.

Robotronut

necro thread see post #25

Are you sure you have the right keymap for your physical keyboard? If you have a UK keyboard but haven't told Linux to use it, you'll get the US map by default. This interprets shift+\ as the @ sign. I think the pipe symbol in this case is shift+#.

Remember too that X has its own keymap; it doesn't use the same one as the console. I set the UK keymap for X in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d rather than fiddling about with xmodmap.

btw: my keyboard shows a broken pipe in the leftmost key of the numeric row but when I invoke it with AltGr, I get a normal pipe.