Spooler Utilities Reference Manual

Peruse

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FIND Command

The FIND command locates an occurrence of a specified string in the current job and

prints the line containing the string. If there is no current job, then the job most recently

spooled becomes the current job.

B[OTH]

specifies that the FIND command should find and display both uppercase and

lowercase occurrences of string.

string

is a set of printable ASCII characters set off by two identical separators. You can

use quotation marks ("), apostrophes ('), or slashes(/) as separators, but actually

any ASCII character can act as the boundary for a string.

Peruse scans the current job, starting at the beginning of the file, for an occurrence

of the specified string.

If no string is specified, then Peruse scans the current job for the last string

given, starting from where the last occurrence of the string was found.

start-position

is the page number from which to begin the search. start-position can be

specified as

[ F | L | * | number ] [ offset ]

If an offset is specified, it is added to or subtracted from the base (F, L, or *) to

define the page.

Peruse supports a page range of 0 through 999,999. If the offset page number

accessed is a negative number or greater than 999,999, Peruse returns an error

message.

F[IND] [ B[OTH] ] [ / string / ] [ start-position ]

F is the first page of the job.

L is the last page of the job.

* is the current page of the job.

number is a page number.

offset is specified as [ + number | - number ]