NAME
lid - Query ID database and report results
SYNOPSIS
lid [OPTION]... PATTERN...
DESCRIPTION
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
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to bug-idutils@gnu.org
SEE ALSO
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.