look
Display lines beginning with a prefix in a sorted file.
See also: grep
, sort
.
More information: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?look.
- Search for lines beginning with a specific prefix in a specific file:
look
prefix
path/to/file
- Case-insensitively search only on 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