linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > This is a pipe | but what is this │ and how do you create > it? > It is meant to be a pipe as well. The man pages are in troff format and for some reason they used the │ to represent |. You can prove that to yourself by going to the man page and try using │ with the definitions given. You'll find it won't work....but | will. -- lp1 on fire (One of the more obfuscated kernel messages)