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Hello, I've always been connecting to linux machine from windows computer, using putty. Now the situation changed and I have a question: How the hell can I write special characters ...
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    [SOLVED] Special characters in bash

    Hello, I've always been connecting to linux machine from windows computer, using putty.

    Now the situation changed and I have a question:

    How the hell can I write special characters (like | ~ Alt + 124 in Windows) ?

    Thank you very much

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    Try ctrl + shift and then type your sequence of numbers preceded by a u:

    Code:
    ctrl + shift + u124
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    Does not work

    The result is !$(not even !@$) to be more confusing )

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    What keyboard layout do you have? US-EN? Keyboard layout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    If so the | can be found by Shift + \ (Above the enter key on the above image)
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    It works

    It works fine, thank you, Kieren.

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