[TUHS] The ^ = | ?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Jan 24 10:05:18 AEST 2003


In message: <47F5ADC94EF3C14AA51386CD1A20DDB8036D5EB6 at usvwoaahs51>
            "Lange, David" <Extern.David.Lange at gedas.com> writes:
: I've been searching for some reference to the ^ symbol being the same a | in
: Bourne shell. Does anyone remember seeing anything like this? I've searched
: the early manpages to no avail.

OS-MP 4.3D (SunOS 4.1.3) man pages say:

     A pipeline is a sequence of one or more  commands  separated
     by  `|'  (or,  for  historical  compatibility, by `^').  The

Warner



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