look(1)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | FILES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO

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 TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWesu

SEE ALSO

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

SunOS 5.9  Last Revised 29 Mar 1994

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