5.1 Aliases for Specialized lid Queries

Historically, the ID utilities have provided several query interfaces which are specializations of lid (see lid invocation).

gid

(alias for ‘lid -R grep’) lists all lines containing the requested pattern.

eid

(alias for ‘lid -R edit’) invokes an editor on all files containing the requested pattern, and optionally initiates a text search for that pattern.

aid

(alias for ‘lid -ils’) treats the requested pattern as a case-insensitive literal substring.