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(-dand-fare assumed):
look prefix