Ubuntu – Can’t type “|” (vertical pipe)

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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.

Best Answer

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.

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