git: f3f16c31fea2 - main - look(1): Add EXAMPLES section
Fernando ApesteguÃa
fernape at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 29 18:55:23 UTC 2020
The branch main has been updated by fernape (ports committer):
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=f3f16c31fea258b2b1ec51ddd1bceb6207b66198
commit f3f16c31fea258b2b1ec51ddd1bceb6207b66198
Author: Fernando Apesteguía <fernape at FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-12-29 20:48:12 +0000
Commit: Fernando Apesteguía <fernape at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2020-12-29 20:48:12 +0000
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
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