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From: daven@LLL-CRG.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re:  That Crazy Caret
Message-ID: <13263@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 13:34:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 13:34:21 1984
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From:  Dave Nelson <daven@LLL-CRG.ARPA>

As I recall, the caret is an old, abandoned equivalent to the pipe character |.
Thus, to quote your message:

	Example:
	
	            ls ^date
	
	gives the date and nothing more.
	
	Also:
	
	            date ^pwd
	
	shows the current directory and nothing more.

I thought this was documented somewhere (maybe in old V7 documentation?),
but a quick glance in the obvious places revealed nothing.

Oh well....

Dave Nelson (daven@lll-crg)	"But you were expected to KNOW that!"