NAME
what —
search files for SCCS
identifiers
SYNOPSIS
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.