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From: milov@cs.uwlax.edu (Milo Velimirovic)
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:21:53 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)
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> 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.