Backtick on an Italian MacBook Pro's keyboard

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I have a MacBook Pro with an Italian keyboard, and I need to type ` character in a bash script. But I cannot get the right key sequence. How can I type this character?

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Fix for: Backtick on an Italian MacBook Pro's keyboard

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I think the real answer is pretty hidden so i will state it clearly for the next users: The backtick is Alt+\ on the Italian keyboard layout of a Mac OS X 10.7.5. It's also available as Alt+9 then Space (dead key).

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