netbsd man page for what

Query: what

OS: netbsd

Section: 1

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

NAME
what -- search files for SCCS identifiers
SYNOPSIS
what [-s] file ...
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.
BSD
February 22, 1999 BSD
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