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NAME

       ident - identify files

SYNOPSIS

       ident file ...

DESCRIPTION

       Ident searches the named files for all occurrences of the pattern $keyword:...$, where keyword is one of

	       Author
	       Date
	       Header
	       Locker
	       Log
	       Revision
	       Source
	       State

       These patterns are normally inserted automatically by the RCS command co (1), but can also be inserted manually.

       Ident works on text files as well as object files.  For example, if the C program in file f.c contains

	       char rcsid[] = "$Header:  Header information $";

       and f.c is compiled into f.o, then the command

	       ident  f.c  f.o

       will print

	       f.c:
		       $Header:  Header information $
	       f.o:
		       $Header:  Header information $

IDENTIFICATION

       Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907.
       Revision Number: 3.0 ; Release Date: 82/12/04 .
       Copyright (C) 1982 by Walter F. Tichy.

SEE ALSO

       ci (1), co (1), rcs (1), rcsdiff(1), rcsintro (1), rcsmerge (1), rlog (1), rcsfile (5).
       Walter  F. Tichy, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Revision Control System," in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference
       on Software Engineering, IEEE, Tokyo, Sept. 1982.

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