look(1) [ultrix man page]

look(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   look(1)

Name
       look - find lines in sorted data

Syntax
       look [-df] string [file]

Description
       The command consults a sorted file and prints all lines that begin with string.	It uses binary search.	B

Options
       The options d and f affect comparisons as in If no file is specified, is assumed with collating sequence -df.

       -d   Uses dictionary order: only letters, digits, tabs and blanks can be compared.

       -f   Folds uppercase to lowercase (compares equally).

Files
       /usr/dict/words

See Also
       grep(1), sort(1)

																	   look(1)

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)