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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 charac‐
     ter, newline, double quote, backslash, or “>” character.

     If the -s option is specified, only the first occurrence of an identifi‐
     cation 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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