New ask Hacker News story: 50th Anniversary Of '|'
50th Anniversary Of '|'
2 by nolta | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Apparently today is the 50th anniversary of using '|' for connecting shell pipelines. It was introduced in v4 of the Thompson shell, whose manpage is dated 1973-04-18 [1]. Previously the syntax for 'a | b' was `a >b>` [2]. [1]: https://ift.tt/NMH8y13 [2]: https://ift.tt/6l5Kf2X
2 by nolta | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Apparently today is the 50th anniversary of using '|' for connecting shell pipelines. It was introduced in v4 of the Thompson shell, whose manpage is dated 1973-04-18 [1]. Previously the syntax for 'a | b' was `a >b>` [2]. [1]: https://ift.tt/NMH8y13 [2]: https://ift.tt/6l5Kf2X
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