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look

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 29 Mar 1994
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NAME

look - find words in the system dictionary or lines in a sorted list  

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/look [-d] [-f] [-tc] string [filename]  

DESCRIPTION

The look command consults a sorted filename and prints all lines that begin with string.

If no filename is specified, look uses /usr/share/lib/dict/words with collating sequence -df.

look limits the length of a word to search for to 256 characters.  

OPTIONS

-d Dictionary order. Only letters, digits, TAB and SPACE characters are used in comparisons.

-f Fold case. Upper case letters are not distinguished from lower case in comparisons.

-tc Set termination character. All characters to the right of c in string are ignored.

 

FILES

/usr/share/lib/dict/words spelling list

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWesu

 

SEE ALSO

grep(1), sort(1), attributes(5)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO

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