From: Edgar Toernig Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:52:48 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: <20061022005248.168709cb.froese@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200610212248.37935.jnareb@gmail.com> Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > My understanding is that ^ is treated as a special metacharacter by some > > shells, which is why bzr revision specs are more long-winded. > > Which shells? In the traditional Bourne shell ^ is an alias for the pipe symbol |. Ciao, ET.