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look — Display lines beginning with a prefix in a sorted file. See also: `grep`, `sort`. More information:
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look command: Display lines beginning with a prefix in a sorted file. See also: grep, sort. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/look.1.html>.Solution
look — Display lines beginning with a prefix in a sorted file. See also: grep, sort. More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/look.1.html>.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}}Code Snippets
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}}Context
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