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From: johnh@psych.usyd.edu.au (John Holden)
Subject: [TUHS] The ^ = | ?
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:04:38 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301240004.LAA06145@psychwarp.psych.usyd.edu.au> (raw)

> I've been searching for some reference to the ^ symbol being the same a |

Yes, pre Bourne shell, edition 6 and earlier used ^ for piped. Also chdir
insteads of the shortened 'cd'




             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-24  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-24  0:04 John Holden [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-25  8:46 Wolfgang Helbig
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
2003-01-24  2:09 Carl Lowenstein
2003-01-23 12:25 Lange, David
2003-01-24  0:05 ` M. Warner Losh

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