If you have ever had a moment when you couldn’t recall a word from memory, but knew something about the word, you probably wandered to one of the numerous online dictionaries to find the name. If you happen to have a Solaris box handy, you can avoid the web and use the look utility to find the word. Look is run with a string that you want to match to a word, and it uses the word list in /usr/share/lib/dict/words during the comparison. The following examples show this nifty utility in action:
$ look liti
litigant
litigate
litigious
$ look oth
Othello
other
otherwise
otherworld
otherworldly