WHAT(1) — UNIX Programmer’s Manual

NAME

what − show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file

SYNOPSIS

what [ −s ] name ...

DESCRIPTION

What reads each file and searches for sequences of the form “@(#)” as inserted by the source code control system. It then prints the remainder of the string after this marker, up to a null character, newline, double quote, or “>” character.

Under the -s option, what will quit after finding the first occurrence of the pattern in each file.

EXIT STATUS

The exit status for what is:

0 any matches were found.

1 otherwise.

BUGS

As SCCS is not licensed with UNIX/32V, this is a rewrite of the what command which is part of SCCS, and may not behave exactly the same as that command does.