vertical bar (character) The character "|", ASCII code 124.
Common names: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar. Rare: ITU-T: vertical line; gozinta; thru; pipesinta; INTERCAL: spike. "Pipe", "gozinta", "thru" and "pipesinta" refer to the use of "|" in Unix shells to create a pipe. Some keyboards show both a solid vertical bar (code 124) and a broken vertical bar (code 166). [Does anyone call either kind of vertical bar "pling"? Other codes?] Last updated: 1998-09-20
