Look

look looks for entries in a list which contain a given string as prefix

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Usage

 look [-bdf] [-t termchar] string [file...]

Options

-b Use binary search. Requires input to be sorted.

-d Use alphanumerics only, and dictionary sorting

-f ignore case

-t stop comparisons on the given terminator character.

Environment

The command is affected by environment variables LANG, LC_ALL, and LC_CTYPE as described in the environ(7) man page.

Provided by

Most (all?) Linux distributions incorporate this from the [util-linux] project

See also

• grep
• sort
• util-linux