look
Display lines beginning with a prefix in a file. Note: the lines in the file must be sorted. See also:
grep
,sort
. More information: https://manned.org/look.
- Search for lines beginning with a specific prefix in a specific file:
look {{prefix}} {{path/to/file}}
- Case-insensitively search only on blank and alphanumeric characters:
look {{-f|--ignore-case}} {{-d|--alphanum}} {{prefix}} {{path/to/file}}
- Specify a string termination character (space by default):
look {{-t|--terminate}} {{,}}
- Search in
/usr/share/dict/words
(--ignore-case
and--alphanum
are assumed):
look {{prefix}}
- Search in
/usr/share/dict/web2
(--ignore-case
and--alphanum
are assumed):
look {{-a|--alternative}} {{prefix}}