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From: imp@bsdimp.com (M. Warner Losh)
Subject: [TUHS] The ^ = | ?
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:05:18 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030123.170518.49361029.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F5ADC94EF3C14AA51386CD1A20DDB8036D5EB6@usvwoaahs51>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-24  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-23 12:25 Lange, David
2003-01-24  0:05 ` M. Warner Losh [this message]
2003-01-24  0:04 John Holden
2003-01-24  2:09 Carl Lowenstein
2003-01-24  3:09 Norman Wilson
2003-01-24  5:37 ` Warren Toomey
2003-01-24  7:07   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2003-01-24 10:32 ` Sven Mascheck
2003-01-26  1:40 ` Greg Lehey
2003-01-25  8:46 Wolfgang Helbig

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