bpb-kit/home/bin/uni

#!/usr/bin/perl -CAO

# via @chneukirchen
# uni PATTERN - list unicode symbols matching PATTERN

BEGIN { $SIG{'__WARN__'} = sub { } };   # silence next load
use Unicode::CharName;

my $rx = shift || die "Usage: uni PATTERN\n";
m/$rx/;  # fail early on faulty regexps

while (<Unicode::CharName::DATA>) {
    my ($hex, $desc) = split(/ /, $_, 2);
    $char = pack("U", hex($hex));
    if ($desc =~ /$rx/i || $char eq $rx || lc($hex) eq lc($rx)) {
        print "$char\t$hex\t$desc";
    }
}