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From: chneukirchen@gmail.com (Christian Neukirchen)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:38:49 +0200
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes
In-Reply-To: <13C2C21D-C263-4171-8653-5A0D8686D00F@cs.uwlax.edu> (Milo
 Velimirovic's message of "Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:21:53 -0500")
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Milo Velimirovic <milov at cs.uwlax.edu> writes:

>> On Jul 9, 2016, at 12:03 PM, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>
> It’s the $ that forces the quoting.

Not in POSIX-compatible sh (works in tcsh even):

$ echo see$
see$

(Neither does ^ need quoting there.)

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