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0 pointslikpok4y ago0 comments

Zsh (and possibly other shells?) will expand a raw ^ into filenames. '' is a little shorter than '^' if you have to quote it.

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jolmg4y ago

> and possibly other shells?

Years ago--I don't if it's still the case--but the fish shell used ^ to redirect stderr.

EDIT: I remembered right:

but it seems it's no longer the case:

  fish> echo foo ^ bar
  foo ^ bar

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jolmg4y ago

> and possibly other shells?

Years ago--I don't if it's still the case--but the fish shell used ^ to redirect stderr.

EDIT: I remembered right:

but it seems it's no longer the case:

  fish> echo foo ^ bar
  foo ^ bar

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