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From: cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Subject: [TUHS] The ^ = | ?
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:09:23 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301240209.SAA20717@opihi.ucsd.edu> (raw)

> 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

-- 
    carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
                                                 clowenst at ucsd.edu



             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-24  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-24  2:09 Carl Lowenstein [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  0:04 John Holden
2003-01-23 12:25 Lange, David
2003-01-24  0:05 ` M. Warner Losh

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