Name
look — stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version
Synopsis
look [options
]prefix
[dictionary_file
]
While writing in your text editor, consider the look
command in a second Terminal window
for quickly looking up the spelling of words. It prints words that
begin with a given string (case-insensitively). The words come from
a dictionary file, /usr/share/dict/words. For instance, the
command:
➜ look bigg
prints all words in the dictionary file that begin with those letters:
bigg
biggah
biggen
bigger
biggest
...
If you supply your own dictionary file—any text file with
alphabetically sorted lines—look
will print all dictionary lines that begin with the given
prefix.
Useful options
| Ignore case. |
| Match the prefix only up to and including the termination character
|
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