what(1) 							   User Commands							   what(1)

NAME

       what - extract SCCS version information from a file

SYNOPSIS

       what [-s] filename...

DESCRIPTION

       The what utility searches each filename for occurrences of the pattern @(#) that the SCCS get command (see sccs-get(1)) substitutes for the
       @(#) ID keyword, and prints what follows up to a ", >, NEWLINE, , or NULL character.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -s    Stops after the first occurrence of the pattern.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Extracting SCCS version information

       If a C program in file program.c contains

	 char sccsid[] = "@(#)identification information";

       and program.c is compiled to yield program.o and a.out, the command:

	 example% what program.c program.o a.out

       produces:

       program.c:    identification information

       program.o:    identification information

       a.out:	     identification information

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Any matches were found.

       1     No matches found.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of what: LANG, LC_ALL,	LC_CTYPE,  LC_MES-
       SAGES, and NLSPATH.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsprot 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       sccs(1), sccs-admin(1), sccs-cdc(1), sccs-comb(1), sccs-delta(1), sccs-get(1), sccs-help(1), sccs-prs(1), sccs-prt(1), sccs-rmdel(1), sccs-
       sact(1), sccs-sccsdiff(1), sccs-unget(1), sccs-val(1), sccsfile(4), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)

DIAGNOSTICS

       Use the SCCS help command for explanations (see sccs-help(1)).

BUGS

       There is a remote possibility that a spurious occurrence of the `@(#)' pattern could be found by what.

SunOS 5.11							    30 Sep 2002 							   what(1)