daleske@cbdkc1.UUCP (02/19/87)
Ok. I've looked through all of the various places I could try. A patch
came through for ispell which implements "L", a lookup option. Based
on some ifdefs it would use "look" or "egrep", both which use a dictionary
in /usr/dict. The dictionary could be called "words" or "web2".
What package does "look" come in? Is it public domain or part of some
product? How does it function?
Thanks for any help! I'll post a summary of responses.
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In article <1916@cbdkc1.UUCP> daleske@cbdkc1.UUCP ( John Daleske x4335 3S324W FRAN) writes: > >What package does "look" come in? Is it public domain or part of some >product? How does it function? "look" (like "dbm") comes with V7-derived UNIX systems, which includes Berkeley UNIX and derivatives (i.e., Ultrix). It's seems to be missing from System V, so I presume it's yet another utility AT&T forgot to include in System V. An excerpt from the man page follows: SYNOPSIS look [-df] string [ file ] DESCRIPTION look consults a sorted file and prints all lines that begin with string. It uses binary search. Note that look searches for a literal string, not a regular expression. You could use grep, but for a sizable file look can be hundreds of times faster. -- Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc. Internet: campbell@maynard.uucp 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109 uucp: {alliant,wjh12}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846 ARPA: campbell%maynard.uucp@harvisr.harvard.edu MCI: LCAMPBELL