r/Codecademy • u/skouakskouek • Aug 14 '15

Stuck on "learn the command line": impossible to add the | symbol on cat volcanoes.txt | wc

On the exercise "Learn the command line - Redirection: 6" I am supposed to type "cat volcanoes.txt | wc" . I tried with chrome and Edge but it seems like it's impossible to add the ||||| symbol. I saw some user went through the whole course, is there an alternative solution I may have missed? Many thanks for your help!

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u/factoradic Moderator Aug 14 '15

Why you can't type |? If you do not have a pipe key please take a look at my answer to this post -> http://redd.it/3gkis4

If you have a pipe key, but it does not work -> report a bug (report section is on the bottom of the left tab in exercise page).

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u/skouakskouek Aug 14 '15

thanks for your quick answer and for the link. I didn't find this thread despite my research. Switch my layout to QWERTY made the trick for me. I don't know why the french layout didn't work (AZERTY) as I have a pipe key on both my laptop keyboard and my external keyboard (poker II keyboard) and both of them didn't work (AltGR+6) . Many thanks again.

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u/factoradic Moderator Aug 15 '15

You're very welcome :)

Many users had this problem. Your keyboard is not an issue, it's a codecademy bug, one of many. But thankfully we can easily get around this one :)

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u/cheeZer Sep 03 '15

Anyone who comes here and doesn't want to dig through the other reddit thread and after that through the discussion on Google. I had the same problem and the solution, which worked for me was: Alt + 124 (on the numeric keypad).