From: Craig Partridge <craig at LOKI.ARPA> Caret is the old pipe character from way back. Typing ls ^date is equivalent to typing ls |date and ls's output is correctly thrown away. I do note, however, that the 4.2 manuals (both SUN and Berkeley) and presumably the 4.1 manuals too, do not appear to mention this. Craig Partridge craig at bbn-unix