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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| f4cde64a | 3 | .\" |
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4 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% |
| 5 | .\" | |
| 5325ced3 | 6 | .\" @(#)look.1 6.4 (Berkeley) %G% |
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7 | .\" |
| 8 | .Dd | |
| 9 | .Dt LOOK 1 | |
| 5325ced3 | 10 | .Os BSD 4.4 |
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11 | .Sh NAME |
| 12 | .Nm look | |
| 13 | .Nd display lines beginning with a given string | |
| 14 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
| 15 | .Nm look | |
| 16 | .Op Fl df | |
| 17 | .Ar string | |
| 18 | .Op Ar file | |
| 19 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| 20 | The | |
| 21 | .Nm Look | |
| 5325ced3 | 22 | utility searchs a text |
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23 | .Ar file |
| 24 | for all | |
| 25 | matches of | |
| 26 | .Ar string . | |
| 27 | The | |
| 28 | .Ar file | |
| 29 | must be sorted for | |
| 30 | .Nm look | |
| 31 | to work properly. If | |
| 32 | .Ar file | |
| 33 | is not specified, the file | |
| 34 | .Pa /usr/share/dict/words | |
| 35 | is used. | |
| 36 | .Pp | |
| 37 | Options: | |
| 5325ced3 | 38 | .Tw Ds |
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39 | .Tp Ar d |
| 40 | Dictionary character set and order. | |
| 41 | .Tp Ar f | |
| 42 | Ignore case. | |
| 43 | .Tp | |
| 44 | .Sh FILES | |
| 45 | .Dw /usr/share/dict/words | |
| 46 | .Di L | |
| 47 | .Dp Pa /usr/share/dict/words | |
| 48 | A spelling dictionary. | |
| 49 | .Dp | |
| 50 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 51 | .Xr sort 1 , | |
| 52 | .Xr grep 1 | |
| 53 | .Sh HISTORY | |
| 54 | .Nm Look | |
| 55 | appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix. |