Re: [Sheflug] Most Pathetic Request Of The Day

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Alec Melling <melling [at] clara.co.uk>: 
 
> Hi, 
>  
> I want to check to see if spamd is running on my system. To do it I 
> understand  
> that I need to run the following command(s) 
>  
> ps -ef grep spamd or ps aux grep spamd 
>  
> Both commands require a vertical line before 'grep'. 
>  
> Told you this was pathetic... I am going mad trying to type the vertical 
> line.  
> I can see it on the keyboard, on a key that seems to have three functions " 
` 
>  
> ¬ " being two of them. How the hell do you get it to type the vertical line? 
>  
 
on my keyboard its next on the '\' key next to the 'z'   
 
SHIFT and '\' will get a pipe symbol (I think thats what you want) 
 
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