look(1) [sunos man page]

look(1) 							   User Commands							   look(1)

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 5.10							    29 Mar 1994 							   look(1)

look(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   look(1)

NAME

       look - Finds lines in a sorted list

SYNOPSIS

       look [-df] [-tcharacter] string [file]

       The look command prints all lines in a sorted file that begin with string.

OPTIONS

       Uses  dictionary  order; only letters, digits, tabs, and spaces are used in comparisons.  Searches without regard to case; treats uppercase
       and lowercase as equivalent.  Ignores character and characters following it in the search string.  If  you  specify  look  -tC  ABCDE,  the
       string  ABCDE  would  become  (in  effect)  AB, with CDE being ignored.	This option is primarily for shell scripts, in which more than one
       string is being processed.

DESCRIPTION

       If no file is specified, look searches in the system word list /usr/share/dict/words, with the options -df assumed by default.

       The look command uses binary search.

       The -d and -f options affect comparisons as in sort.

NOTES

       In order to use the -f option, you must first sort file with the sort -f command; otherwise, look displays only lowercase items.

       If you do not specify -f, but specify a file (such as /usr/share/dict/words) that has been sorted with sort -f, look may  not  produce  any
       output.

EXAMPLES

       To search a sorted file called sortfile for all lines that begin with the string as, enter: look as sortfile To search the system word list
       for all words beginning with smi, enter: look smi

	      This might result in: smile smirk smith smithereens Smithfield Smithson smithy smitten

FILES

       System word list.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  grep(1), sort(1), spell(1)

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