WHAT(1)                 NetBSD 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 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.

NetBSD 5.0                     February 22, 1999                    NetBSD 5.0