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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