Also, there was disagreement in the thread about what a caret is, besides carrot. I call this < a left caret. I call this > a right caret. I call this ^ a little hat! But I think it's an actual caret.
... operators for indicating the redirection of input/output in various command shells. In this context, they are often referred to as hoinkies (singular hoinky) in order to “avoid confusion with other bracket-type operators”.