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From: lwa@MIT-MRCLEAN.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: That Crazy Caret
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 13:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 13:02:00 1984
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From:  Larry Allen <lwa@MIT-MRCLEAN.ARPA>

You've probably gotten 20 answers to this by now, but the caret used
to be a synonym for vertical bar, for use on terminals (TTY33's I think)
that didn't have a convenient vertical bar character.  So
foo ^date
will run foo piping the standard output to date.