Note: "broken bar" and the glyph "¦" redirect here. The symbol (|) has various names that refer to differing, yet sometimes related semantics: One of the more popular names is the
Sheffer stroke, though often referred to as a pipe (by the Unix community) and Vertical bar, verti-bar, vertical line or divider line by others.
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<
character> The character "|",
ASCII code 124.
Common names: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar. Rare:
ITU-T: vertical line; gozinta; thru; pipesinta;
INTERCAL: spike.
"Pipe", "gozinta", "thru" and "pipesinta" refer to the use of "|" in
Unix shells to create a
pipe.
Some keyboards show both a solid vertical bar (code 124) and a broken vertical bar (code 166).
[Does anyone call either kind of vertical bar "
pling"? Other codes?]
(1998-09-20)
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