osf1 man page for ident

ident(1)																  ident(1)

NAME
       ident - identify files

SYNOPSIS
       ident [-q] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
       ident searches for all occurrences of the pattern $keyword:...$ in the named files or, if no file name appears, the standard input.

       These  patterns	are  normally inserted automatically by the RCS command co(1), but can also be inserted manually. The option -q suppresses
       the warning given if there are no patterns in a file.

       ident works on text files as well as object files and dumps. For example, if the C program in f.c contains

       char rcsid[] = "$Id: ident.1,v 1.1.10.2 1999/08/13 19:58:10 Colin_Walters Exp $";

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

       # ident	f.c  f.o

       will output

       f.c:
	 $Id: ident.1,v 1.1.10.2 1999/08/13 19:58:10 Colin_Walters Exp $ f.o:
	 $Id: ident.1,v 1.1.10.2 1999/08/13 19:58:10 Colin_Walters Exp $

IDENTIFICATION
       Author: Walter F. Tichy.
       Revision Number: 1.1.6.4; Release Date: 1993/12/20.
       Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.
       Copyright (C) 1990 by Paul Eggert.

SEE ALSO
       ci(1), co(1), rcs(1), rcsdiff(1), rcsintro(1), rcsmerge(1), rlog(1), rcsfile(5)

       Walter F. Tichy, RCS--A System for Version Control, Software--Practice & Experience 15, 7 (July 1985), 637-654.

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