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Groff
26 lines
517 B
Groff
.TH like "" "" "/rdb Command"
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.PC "Find names that sound like another name"
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\fBlike \fIsimilar-name file \fB[ \fIname-column \fB]\fR
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.PP
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.II soundex
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.II "name, convert to soundex"
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.II "convert name to soundex"
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.II "Knuth, Donald"
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The command
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.B like
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converts a name to Knuth's soundex code and looks it up in the
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.B .x
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secondary-index file of a name.
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To work, you must have first run the command
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.BR soundex ,
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to create the soundex file.
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.SH Example
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See
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.B soundex
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for examples.
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.SH "See Also"
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.B
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soundex
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.R
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.SO like
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