Interesting Bourne shell usage, and ^ for pipe

[Dave Sherman]

Bill Stewart comments on my use of ^ instead of | for the pipe.
That, of course, goes back to v6 (and beyond); I've always used
it. I got started on UNIX using terminals on which ^ was lower-case
and | was upper-case, so ^ was used automatically. Nowadays I use
VT-100's and compatibles, which tend to have ^ as shift-6 and | as
shift-\, but I can't/won't break the ^ habit. Yes, grep "^abc" file
is a case in which it would be useful to have ^ as a non-special character,
but I can live with it.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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