From f3f16c31fea258b2b1ec51ddd1bceb6207b66198 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Fernando=20Apestegu=C3=ADa?= Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:48:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] look(1): Add EXAMPLES section Add two simple examples. In this case I opted to show a small portion of the output since it helps to understand what the tool does. It shows the use of the -t flag too. PR: Submitted by: Reported by: Reviewed by: gbe@ Approved by: manpages (bcr@) Obtained from: MFC after: MFH: Relnotes: Security: Sponsored by: Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27543 --- usr.bin/look/look.1 | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/usr.bin/look/look.1 b/usr.bin/look/look.1 index b2f7100da530..177306e4eb09 100644 --- a/usr.bin/look/look.1 +++ b/usr.bin/look/look.1 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)look.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd July 17, 2004 +.Dd December 29, 2020 .Dt LOOK 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -96,6 +96,35 @@ The .Nm utility exits 0 if one or more lines were found and displayed, 1 if no lines were found, and >1 if an error occurred. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Look for lines starting with +.Ql xylene +in the file +.Pa /usr/share/dict/words : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ look xylen +xylene +xylenol +xylenyl +.Ed +.Pp +Same as above, but do not consider any characters in +.Ar string +beyond the first +.Ql e . +Note that +.Fl f +is implicit since we are searching the default file +.Pa /usr/share/dict/words : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ look -t e xylen +Xyleborus +xylem +xylene +xylenol +xylenyl +xyletic +.Ed .Sh COMPATIBILITY The original manual page stated that tabs and blank characters participated in comparisons when the