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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 ]

Availability

SUNWesu

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

See Also

grep(1) , sort(1)

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