Yup early shell's equated ^ and |
The problem was while the Model - 33, post 1965 could print a vertical
bar, as note 2 of page three of teletypes document: "33 Keyboard" General
Description and Principles of Operations" ISS 4, Section 574-121-100TC
(Issue 4, June 1974), the keyboard could not generate it.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 3:43 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:37:17PM +0100, Niklas
Karlsson wrote:
Den tors 3 dec. 2020 kl 21:32 skrev M Douglas
McIlroy <
m.douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu>:
There's a back story. The paper appears in
the proceedings of a
conference held in London in 1973, a few months after the advent of
pipes. While preparing the presentation, Ken was inspired to invent
and install the pipe operator. His talk wouldn't have been nearly as
compelling had it been expressed in the original pipeline syntax (for
which I take the blame).
Now I'm curious. Is there anywhere I can read about the original pipeline
syntax? I tried searching a bit, but the only mention that was even
vaguely
informative only stated that > was involved.
Wasn't there a version that was
cat whatever ^ wc -l
?