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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 13:03:38 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)
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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.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
An observable characteristic is not necessarily a functional requirement.
        --John Hudson