hpux man page for val

val(1)							      General Commands Manual							    val(1)

NAME
       val - validate SCCS file

SYNOPSIS
       SID] name] type] files

DESCRIPTION
       The  command  reads  one  or  more  files  to determine whether each file read is an SCCS file meeting the characteristics specified by the
       optional argument list.	Command-line options may appear in any order, and are described below.

   Options
       The command recognizes the following options and command-line arguments.  The effects of each option apply independently to each  specified
       file.

	      Silent option. Suppress  diagnostic messages normally generated on the standard output when an error is encountered while processing
			     any specified file.

	      Check existence of revision
			     SID in file where SID (SCCS IDentification string) is an SCCS delta number.  SID is first checked to ensure  that	it
			     is  unambiguous  and  valid before checking file.	For example, is ambiguous because it physically does not exist but
			     implies 1.1, 1.2, etc., which may exist; and are invalid because they have a zero suffix which  never  appears  in  a
			     valid delta number.

	      name	     is compared with the SCCS keyword in file.

	      type	     is compared with the SCCS keyword in file.

	      Verbose option.
			     Prints  additional  detailed  diagnostic messages on the standard output for any corruption detected while processing
			     each named file.  The messages are intended for use with the information contained in  sccsfile(4)  when  fixing  the
			     file.

	      file	     One or more SCCS files to be processed.  If is used as a file argument, reads the standard input until an end-of-file
			     condition is encountered.	Each line read is independently processed as if it were a command-line argument list.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
   Environment Variables
       determines the interpretation of text within file as single- and/or multi-byte characters.

       determines the language in which messages are displayed.

       If or is not specified in the environment or is set to the empty string, the value of is used as a default for each  unspecified  or  empty
       variable.  If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default of "C" (see lang(5)) is used instead of

       If  any	internationalization  variable	contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to "C".  See
       environ(5).

   International Code Set Support
       Single-byte and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

RETURN VALUE
       The 8-bit code returned by is a disjunction of the possible errors; i. e., can be interpreted as a bit string where (moving  from  left	to
       right) set bits are interpreted as follows:

	      Bit    Interpretation
	       0     Missing file argument;
	       1     Unknown or duplicate option argument;
	       2     Corrupt SCCS file;
	       3     Cannot open file or file is not an SCCS file;
	       4     SID is invalid or ambiguous;
	       5     SID does not exist;
	       6     does not match type argument;
	       7     does not match name argument;

       Note  that can process two or more files on a given command line, and in turn can process multiple command lines (when reading the standard
       input).	In these cases an aggregate code is returned; a logical of the codes generated for each command line and file processed.

DIAGNOSTICS
       generates diagnostic messages on the standard output for each command line and file processed, and also returns a single  8-bit	code  upon
       exit as described earlier under Use the sccshelp(1) command for explanations.

SEE ALSO
       admin(1), delta(1), get(1), sccshelp(1), prs(1), sccsfile(4).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
																	    val(1)