Learn Bash Scripting by Building Five Programs: fortune

Backend Development
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Hi guys, im stucked in one of this lecture’s step.

This is what I am getting asked to do:

False. An important operator in that menu is =~ . It allows for pattern matching. Using the same syntax but with this operator, check if hello contains the pattern el .

It is not that I dont understand what I have to do or I am getting an error, is just that I cant type the ‘~’ character to solve this. Neither I can copy paste on the terminal.

I have searched about this and people say alt+126 fixes it, but it doesnt :confused:

Someone can help me please?

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You do not explain why you cannot type the tilde. But perhaps something in this article will help you find it

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/t/tilde.htm

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You can try to switch the keyword to English querty. The tilde is at Shift+`

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btw. there is a way to copy and paste but it involves using SHIFT-INSERT (basically you highlight something and I think you use CTRL-C then you put your mouse in the terminal and then SHIFT-INSERT or something very close to that. I can test it out again if you cannot figure it out yourself)

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I finally solved this.
I have a spanish keyboard so the tilde sign doesn´t figure in it. Changing it to English querty allowed me typing the sign.
Thanks for the help! :two_hearts:

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