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30 .\" @(#)look.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93
37 .Nd display lines beginning with a given string
47 utility displays any lines in
54 performs a binary search, the lines in
60 is not specified, the file
61 .Pa /usr/share/dict/words
62 is used, only alphanumeric characters are compared and the case of
63 alphabetic characters is ignored.
68 Dictionary character set and order, i.e. only alphanumeric characters
71 Ignore the case of alphabetic characters.
73 Specify a string termination character, i.e. only the characters
76 up to and including the first occurrence of
83 utility exits 0 if one or more lines were found and displayed,
84 1 if no lines were found, and \*[Gt]1 if an error occurred.
86 .Bl -tag -width /usr/share/dict/words -compact
87 .It Pa /usr/share/dict/words
94 The original manual page stated that tabs and blank characters participated
95 in comparisons when the
98 This was incorrect and the current man page matches the historic