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I've always called it the Pipe character.. anyone else? Never heard it called the Vertical Bar before.
by johng 2y ago
I've always called it the Pipe character.. anyone else? Never heard it called the Vertical Bar before.
- kyrylo 2y agoYeah, me too. However, I used the Wikipedia name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar
- apothegm 2y agoIt’s called the pipe in computing circles because we use it to “pipe” output from one command to the next on the command line. But IIRC it exists on the keyboard from back when it was needed to draw borders for tables in the typewriter era.