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I can't type |. I have tried to press and hold Ctrl and Shift and then press and release U and then type 007c but nothing happens.

I do not know if I make the wrong sequence of pressing and holding. I get crazy! I am trying to enter the command: 

sed -i -re 's/([a-z]{2}\.)?archive.ubuntu.com|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

This is for my pinball 2000 running on Lubuntu/pinbox.

I selected Sweden and Swedish keyboard in the installation.

Eliah Kagan
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Anders
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    Copy and paste from another site? e.g. http://www.linfo.org/vertical_bar_character.html –  Sep 30 '17 at 20:36
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    Which language / keyboard are you using? The key / key combination for the pipe character depends strongly on the language / keyboard. – sudodus Sep 30 '17 at 20:36
  • I selected Sweden and Swedish keyboard in the installation. I can try to reinstall with all american settings!? – Anders Sep 30 '17 at 21:05
  • Press the Alt Gr key and and after that the key between z and shift to get | in a Swedish keyboard. (This key has < , > and | in a Swedish keyboard.) – sudodus Sep 30 '17 at 21:32
  • Thank you!!! I thought that that was another symbol. It looks more like a long ":" meaning it is a gap in between/not a compete line like "|" when i type it in lubutu. – Anders Oct 01 '17 at 07:55
  • Is it suppose to look like the long ":" in Lubutu? – Anders Oct 01 '17 at 07:57
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    In some fonts the pipe character looks like two vertical bars with a small space between. (I guess that is what you mean. I think in most fonts it is one solid vertical bar, but I have seen it as two vertical bars with a small space between, and that is what it looks like on the key of some keyboards.) – sudodus Oct 01 '17 at 08:28
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – sudodus Oct 01 '17 at 09:12
  • @Anders, You are welcome :-) – sudodus Oct 01 '17 at 12:57
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    By the way, pasting in a terminal works with either Ctrl+Shift+V or by selecting the text to paste and pressing the middle mouse button where it should be pasted. Especially the last one is great for fast copying oneliners like yours. – dessert Oct 03 '17 at 18:01
  • on my keyboard shift+\ makes | – Dipak Gaikwad Jul 16 '22 at 04:13

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Key combination to type the pipe character in a Swedish keyboard

Press the Alt Gr key and and after that the key between z and shift to get | in a Swedish keyboard. (This key has < (default), > (with shift) and | (with Alt Gr) in a Swedish keyboard.)

I think in most fonts the pipe character is one solid vertical bar, but I have seen it as two vertical bars with a small space between, and that is what it looks like on the key of some keyboards, like the picture in this link.

onboard helps explore keys and key combinations

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You can install onboard and use it to explore which keys and key combinations to use to type various letters, digits and symbols in different languages.

sudodus
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I tried to do exactly as you tried, Anders. My keyboard is Brazilian (ABNT), so I have similar keyboard peculiarities and annoyances, as signals and accents, too.

According to this other issue, I pressed Enter at the end of the same sequence you tried to do, to make it work.

I think if you repeat the sequence you tried at your question, finally pressEnter (*), it will works!

PS: Don`t forget to release CtrlAlt after press U.

(*)space works,too.

Redbob
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I had this problem too. With a Ducky 65% keyboard the button Ubuntu assigned to vertical pipe wasn't physically existent. I ended up adding a cronjob on boot that uses xmodmap to set vertbar to keyboards altgr+6. This is the command: xmodmap -e "keycode 15 = 6 ampersand 6 asciicircum bar fiveeighths"

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I found this symbol by holding down Shift and pressing the # button.

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I cannot follow your problem. I just changed my German keyboard for the purpose of trying to understand your problem by typing setxkbmap se on the command line, and Alt Gr + | got the same result as when using setxkbmap de.

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  • There's no key | at least on my keyboard, you probably mean the < key. – dessert Oct 03 '17 at 17:59
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    Just checked this link for Swedish layout ; https://documentation.vizrt.com/viz-easycut-guide/4.12/vizeasycut_usersguide_swedish_keyboard_layout.html and it shows the third level select key (AltGr) just like my German KB. Is yours somehow non-standard? – David Walker Oct 03 '17 at 18:06
  • Well, on some keyboards, several symbols are printed on the keys, for example this one, https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZkNZR.jpg, so you could say | key (not only < key, @dessert). – sudodus Oct 03 '17 at 18:06
  • @DavidWalker, there was confusion because the symbol on the OPs key was not a solid vertical bar, but two vertical bars with a small space between, which "looks like a long : ". We solved that issue via comments. – sudodus Oct 03 '17 at 18:15