ident(1)                                                 ident(1)



NAME
     ident - displays RCS keywords and their values

SYNOPSIS
     ident file...

ARGUMENTS
     file Specifies the file that is to be searched.

DESCRIPTION
     ident searches the named files for all occurrences of the
     pattern $keyword:...  $, where keyword is one of the
     following:

        Author
        Date
        Header
        Locker
        Log
        Revision
        Source
        State

     These patterns are normally inserted automatically by the
     RCS command co(1), but can also be inserted manually.

     The ident program works on text files as well as object
     files.

EXAMPLES
     If the C program in file f.c contains the line

        char rcsid[] = "$Header: utility $";

     and f.c is compiled into f.o, then the command

        ident f.c f.o

     will print

        f.c:
             $Header: utility $
        f.o:
             $Header: utility $


NOTES
     Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
     IN 47907
               c
     Copyright   1982 by Walter F. Tichy.





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ident(1)                                                 ident(1)



SEE ALSO
     ci(1), co(1), rcs(1), rcsdiff(1), rcsintro(1), rcsmerge(1),
     rlog(1)

     rcsfile(4) in A/UX Programmer's Reference

     Walter F. Tichy, ``Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of
     a Revision Control System,'' in Proceedings of the 6th
     International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE,
     Tokyo, September 1982













































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