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From: gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re:  That Crazy Caret
Message-ID: <13268@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 16:51:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 16:51:24 1984
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From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA>

The Bourne shell accepts ^ as a synonym for |.
This is for "historical reasons"; you should not deliberately
start using ^ instead of |.