shell character substitution

[Rick Auricchio]

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 In article <397 at haddock.UUCP> mikeh at haddock.UUCP writes:
>	sh(1) has undocumented alternate pipe character, "^" (carrot,
>	ascii 0136).  I think this dates back to the days when people
>	used teletype 33's as ttys.  Still, lack of vertical bar will
>	frustate C programming.

The 33 *is* a tty, which is one reason people *used* them as ttys. :-)
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