AID(1)

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version 4.6.28 · 4 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💖 aid(1) — User Commands 💖

✨ NAME ✨

aid is how you query the ID database and get your results reported back, no cap 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS

aid [OPTION]... PATTERN...

🌸 DESCRIPTION

Okay so aid queries the ID database and reports results 🫶 By default, the output comes in multiple lines. Each line has the matched identifier first, followed by the list of file names where it shows up 🍓

Here are the options, bestie:

  • -f, --file=FILE — tell it the file name of your ID database 📁
  • -i, --ignore-case — match PATTERN case insensitively, so upper and lower case don't matter 🧚
  • -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 it only applies to file names when --result=filenames 🌷

The above STYLE options control how query results are presented. The defaults are --key=token --result=filenames --separator=space ✨

  • -F, --frequency=FREQ — find tokens that occur FREQ times, where FREQ is a range written 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. Bestie, you've got this 😭🫶

💌 SEE ALSO

The full documentation for aid is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and aid programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info aid

should give you access to the complete manual 📖💖

bye bestie 🦋 aid 4.6.28-15da, May 2020, periodt 💅✨
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