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WHAT(1) 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 SCCS and SCCS-compatible version control systems. 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. NetBSD 10.99 December 12, 2015 NetBSD 10.99