> On Jul 9, 2016, at 12:03 PM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> 
> Dave Horsfall scripsit:
> 
>> I still remember when the pipe command was "^" (pointy hat).
> 
> Thus forcing the rest of us to quote grep patterns like '^foo$' forever.

It’s the $ that forces the quoting.