look
Display lines beginning with a prefix in a sorted file. Note: the lines in the file must be sorted. See also:
grep
,sort
. More information: https://man.openbsd.org/look.
- Search for lines beginning with a specific prefix in a specific file:
look {{prefix}} {{path/to/file}}
- Case-insensitively ([f]) search only on alphanumeric characters ([d]):
look -f -d {{prefix}} {{path/to/file}}
- Specify a string [t]ermination character (space by default):
look -t {{,}}
- Search in
/usr/share/dict/words
(-d
and-f
are assumed):
look {{prefix}}