Not escaped caret prefix (-p ^) is not recognized

[peterblazejewicz]

I've a problem running update with caret prefix. According to docs I should use:

pjup -p ^     use caret before new versions

This one fails:

Argument check failed: function (argv, options) {
            if (!argv.p) {
                argv.p
              return true;
            }
            if (argv.p === '~' || argv.p === '^') return true;
        }

Specify --help for available options

I need to use escaped caret:

pjup -p \^

just as with tilde.
OS X 10.10/Node 0.12.7
Am I correct with this?