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Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Unadvertised sh(1) feature?
Article-I.D.: houxj.249
Posted: Wed May 11 17:08:33 1983
Received: Fri May 13 21:23:42 1983
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Date:Wed, 11-May-83 17:08:33 EDT


	There is at least one other unadvertised feature in the
Bourne shell, although a lot of people probably know about this
one.  I have been bugging the USG people to document this for about
two years now.

	The character '^' (the caret) is equivalent to '|' (the or-bar).
It can be used to make pipes.  A lot of people find this one by
trying to do something like

		grep ^abc file

and having the shell say

		abc: not found

					Bill Dietrich
					houxj!wapd