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WHAT(1) |
General Commands Manual |
WHAT(1) |
NAME
what — search files for SCCS identifiers
DESCRIPTION
The
what utility reads each
file operand and searches for sequences of the form “@(#)” as inserted by the source code control system. It prints the remainder of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double quote, backslash, or “>” character.
If the -s option is specified, only the first occurrence of an identification string in each file is printed.
EXIT STATUS
The what utility exits 0 if any matches were found, and 1 otherwise.
STANDARDS
The what utility conforms to X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4, Version 2 (“XPG4.2”).
HISTORY
The what command appeared in 4.0BSD.
BUGS
As BSD is not licensed to distribute SCCS this is a rewrite of the what command which is part of SCCS, and may not behave exactly the same as that command does.