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lid - Query ID database and report results
lid [OPTION]... PATTERN...
Query ID database and report results. By default, output consists
of multiple lines, each line containing the matched identifier followed
by the list of file names in which it occurs.
- -f, --file=FILE
- file name of
ID database
- -i, --ignore-case
- match PATTERN case insensitively
- -l, --literal
- match
PATTERN as a literal string
- -r, --regexp
- match PATTERN as a regular expression
- -w, --word
- match PATTERN as a delimited word
- -s, --substring
- match PATTERN as
a substring
- Note: If PATTERN contains extended regular expression metacharacters,
it is interpreted as a regular expression substring.
- Otherwise, PATTERN
is interpreted as a literal word.
- -k, --key=STYLE
- STYLE is one of ‘token’, ‘pattern’
or ‘none’
- -R, --result=STYLE
- STYLE is one of ‘filenames’, ‘grep’, ‘edit’ or ‘none’
- -S,
--separator=STYLE STYLE is one of ‘braces’, ‘space’ or ‘newline’ and
- only applies
to file names when ‘--result=filenames’
- The above STYLE options control how
query results are presented.
- Defaults are --key=token --result=filenames --separator=space
- -F, --frequency=FREQ
- find tokens that occur FREQ times, where FREQ is a range
expressed as ‘N..M’. If N is omitted, it defaults to 1, if M is omitted it
defaults to MAX_USHRT
- -a, --ambiguous=LEN
- find tokens whose names are ambiguous
for LEN chars
- -x, --hex
- only find numbers expressed as hexadecimal
- -d, --decimal
- only find numbers expressed as decimal
- -o, --octal
- only find numbers expressed
as octal
- By default, searches match numbers of any radix.
- --help
- display this
help and exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
The full
documentation for the id-utils package is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and id-utils packages are properly installed, the command
- info
’ID database’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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