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Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
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Hi Larry,

> Wasn't there a version that was 
>
> 	cat whatever ^ wc -l

It existed for quite a while in Bourne's shell even when | came along
and was useful when the keyboard didn't have a | keycap or, more likely,
when it was a modern machine with the capability of mapping keys which
had a poor mapping with no | available.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.