| WHAT(1) | General Commands Manual | WHAT(1) |
what — search
files for SCCS identifiers
what |
[-s] file ... |
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.
The what utility exits 0 if any matches
were found, and 1 otherwise.
The what utility conforms to
X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4, Version 2
(“XPG4.2”).
The what command appeared in
4.0BSD.
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.
| December 12, 2015 | NetBSD 11.0 |