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Why does ` (backtick) not appear until after I press another key?
Other answers have mentioned that this can be a keyboard layout thing, but I felt that a concrete example might be useful, so:
On Windows I generally use the "English (UK) Extended" keyboard ...
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What does |I`E`X mean in powershell?
iex is an alias for Invoke-Expression. Here the two backticks don't make any difference, but just obfuscates the command a little. iex executes a string as an expression, even from pipe. Here Start-...
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What does |I`E`X mean in powershell?
I`E`X is an acronym for the PowerShell command Invoke-Expression.
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What does |I`E`X mean in powershell?
It's an alias and PowerShell has tons of them.
You can see them all by typing
# Get named aliases
Get-Alias |
Out-GridView -PassThru -Title 'Available aliases'
Or a specific one...
Get-Alias -Name ...
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ZSA Moonlander backtick becomes § and shift backtick is ±
nevermind I re-set the keyboard to ansi according to here and it worked, thanks!
https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/macos/
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Raspbian ( Debian) cmd prompt five single back quote marks
Pressing Tab will cause the shell to auto-complete a program name if it's the first word, or a file name elsewhere. But if you just press Tab at an empty line, the shell will offer a list of all ...
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How to type the tilde character that is not in my keyboard layout?
You could use 'TyperTask' and create a set of key-strokes, lets say ºtilde to trigger ~ (tilde):
ºtilde=~
'TyperTask' Source: http://www.vtaskstudio.com/support.php
'TyperTask' Portable: http://...
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