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From: craig@LOKI.ARPA
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Subject: Re:  That Crazy Caret
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 13:44:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 13:44:21 1984
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From:  Craig Partridge <craig@LOKI.ARPA>

	Caret is the old pipe character from way back.  Typing

	ls ^date

is equivalent to typing

	ls |date

and ls's output is correctly thrown away.  I do note, however, that the
4.2 manuals (both SUN and Berkeley) and presumably the 4.1 manuals too,
do not appear to mention this.

Craig Partridge
craig@bbn-unix