OT What is this symbol?

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Sep 26 15:26:18 UTC 2006


linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> This is a pipe | but what is this │ and how do you create 
> it?
> 

It is meant to be a pipe as well.  The man pages are in troff format and for
some reason they used the │ to represent |.

You can prove that to yourself by going to the man page and try using │ with
the definitions given.  You'll find it won't work....but | will.

-- 
lp1 on fire
(One of the more obfuscated kernel messages)




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