gid [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
Report bugs to bug-idutils@gnu.org
The full documentation for defid is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and defid programs are properly installed
at your site, the command
- info defid
should give you access to the complete manual.