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Manual Pages  — WHAT

NAME

what – show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file

CONTENTS

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, ‘amp;>’ 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 available on other operating systems.

HISTORY

The what command appeared in BSD 4.0 .

BUGS

This is a rewrite of the SCCS command of the same name, and behavior may not be identical.

WHAT (1) December 14, 2006

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