Looking it Up with look

Speaking of spelling, you can also have Unix just look up a word for you in the system dictionary. It’s just like saying, “Hey, honey, how do I spell ‘unforgivably,’ as in ‘unforgivably lazy’?” Just type look and the beginning of the word you want to look up (Code Listing 15.5).

Code Listing 15.5. Look up words with look.

[jdoe@frazz jdoe]$ look unfo
unfold
unfolded
unfolding
unfolds
unforeseen
unforgeable
unforgiving
unformatted
unfortunate
unfortunately
unfortunates
unfounded
[jdoe@frazz jdoe]$

To Look Up a Definition with look:

• look unfo

  At the shell prompt, type look followed by the first letters—all you know—of the word you want to look up. You’ll see a listing of all the words that start with those letters, as shown in Code Listing 15.5.

Figure 15.2. Use look to find words, even within vi.

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