How to pass | (pipe) as argument to java command in terminal

Question

I'm trying to run

java -jar jarname |

where | is the pipe delimiter.

But, what's happening is it's thinking of pipe as another terminal command.

TIA

Answer 1

You need to quote the pipe. In most shells (sh/Bash/…), the following works:

java -jar jarname '|'

or

java -jar jarname \|