| LOOK(1) | General Commands Manual | LOOK(1) |
look —
look |
[-df] [-t
termchar] string
[file] |
look utility displays any lines in
file which contain string as a
prefix. As look performs a binary search, the lines in
file must be sorted.
If file is not specified, the file /usr/share/dict/words is used, only alphanumeric characters are compared and the case of alphabetic characters is ignored.
Options:
-d-f-tThe look utility exits 0 if one or more
lines were found and displayed, 1 if no lines were found, and >1 if an
error occurred.
-d option was specified. This was
incorrect and the current man page matches the historic implementation.
look appeared in Version 7
AT&T UNIX.
| June 14, 1993 | NetBSD 9.0 |