Thursday, 26 December 2013

How to read keyboard symbols

How to read keyboard symbols

~tilde (sounds like til-da); be prepared to explain to computer-illiterate people saying "you know, the wave-shaped thingy"
!exclamation; commonly read as bang in case of #!/bin/sh
@at
#pound; but commonly read as shee in case of #!/bin/sh, not sure why
$dollar
%percent
^caret; not many people know this word so be prepared to say "no, not carrot; it's the character above 6, an arrow pointing up"
&ampersand
*star; some read asterisk
(opening parenthesis (some may shorten it saying paren)
)closing parenthesis
_underscore; once I heard people say underbar
+plus
-minus, hyphen; as symbol before arguments in commands, some people including me read dash, easier to say one syllable
=equals
`backtick or backquote
{opening brace
}closing brace
[opening bracket
]closing bracket
|pipe or vertical bar
\backslash; be prepared to explain to some computer-illiterate people
:colon
;semicolon
"double quote
'single quote
<less than; some may read left angle bracket
>greater than
,comma
.dot; period if in English text
?question mark
/slash or forward slash; some computer-illiterate people may be confused about / and \
space
(), [] and {}may also be called brackets in general. In that case, they specifically call [] square brackets and {} curly brackets. I never like this. Open and Closing may also be called left and right.

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