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WHAT(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   WHAT(1)

NAME
what -- show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file SYNOPSIS
what [-qs] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The what utility searches each specified file for sequences of the form ``@(#)'' as inserted by the SCCS source code control system. It prints the remainder of the string following this marker, up to a NUL character, newline, double quote, '>' character, or backslash. The following options are available: -q Only output the match text, rather than formatting it. -s Stop searching each file after the first match. EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 if any matches were found, otherwise 1. SEE ALSO
ident(1), strings(1) STANDARDS
The what utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). The -q option is a non-standard FreeBSD extension which may not be avail- able on other operating systems. HISTORY
The what command appeared in 4.0BSD. BUGS
This is a rewrite of the SCCS command of the same name, and behavior may not be identical. BSD
December 14, 2006 BSD

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UNAME(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  UNAME(1)

NAME
uname -- display information about the system SYNOPSIS
uname [-aiKmnoprsUv] DESCRIPTION
The uname command writes the name of the operating system implementation to standard output. When options are specified, strings represent- ing one or more system characteristics are written to standard output. The options are as follows: -a Behave as though the options -m, -n, -r, -s, and -v were specified. -i Write the kernel ident to standard output. -K Write the FreeBSD version of the kernel. -m Write the type of the current hardware platform to standard output. -n Write the name of the system to standard output. -o This is a synonym for the -s option, for compatibility with other systems. -p Write the type of the machine processor architecture to standard output. -r Write the current release level of the operating system to standard output. -s Write the name of the operating system implementation to standard output. -U Write the FreeBSD version of the user environment. -v Write the version level of this release of the operating system to standard output. If the -a flag is specified, or multiple flags are specified, all output is written on a single line, separated by spaces. The -K and -U flags are intended to be used for fine grain differentiation of incremental FreeBSD development and user visible changes. ENVIRONMENT
An environment variable composed of the string UNAME_ followed by any flag to the uname utility (except for -a) will allow the corresponding data to be set to the contents of the environment variable. EXIT STATUS
The uname utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
feature_present(3), getosreldate(3), sysctl(3), uname(3), sysctl(8) STANDARDS
The uname command is expected to conform to the IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') specification. HISTORY
The uname command appeared in PWB UNIX. The -K and -U extension flags appeared in FreeBSD 10.0. BSD
November 20, 2013 BSD
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