[TUHS] The ^ = | ?

[Carl Lowenstein]

> From: "Lange, David" <Extern.David.Lange at gedas.com>
> To: "'tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org'" <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
> Subject: [TUHS] The ^ = | ?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 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.

It's here in my printed copy of the 6th Edition Unix Programmer's Manual.

Page entitled SH(I)
Section DESCRIPTION
Subsection Command lines.  One or more commands separated by '|' or '^'
constitute a chain of filters.  . . .

    carl

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