键盘上各种符号的英文名称
~ 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; 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.
