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diff --git a/usr.bin/look/look.1 b/usr.bin/look/look.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d8a247 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/look/look.1 @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)look.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93 +.\" +.Dd June 14, 1993 +.Dt LOOK 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm look +.Nd display lines beginning with a given string +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm look +.Op Fl df +.Op Fl t Ar termchar +.Ar string +.Op Ar file +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm look +utility displays any lines in +.Ar file +which contain +.Ar string +as a prefix. +As +.Nm look +performs a binary search, the lines in +.Ar file +must be sorted. +.Pp +If +.Ar file +is not specified, the file +.Pa /usr/share/dict/words +is used, only alphanumeric characters are compared and the case of +alphabetic characters is ignored. +.Pp +Options: +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl d +Dictionary character set and order, i.e. only alphanumeric characters +are compared. +.It Fl f +Ignore the case of alphabetic characters. +.It Fl t +Specify a string termination character, i.e. only the characters +in +.Ar string +up to and including the first occurrence of +.Ar termchar +are compared. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm 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. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/dict/words -compact +.It Pa /usr/share/dict/words +the dictionary +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr grep 1 , +.Xr sort 1 +.Sh COMPATIBILITY +The original manual page stated that tabs and blank characters participated +in comparisons when the +.Fl d +option was specified. +This was incorrect and the current man page matches the historic +implementation. +.Sh HISTORY +.Nm Look +appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix. |