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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