NAME

ident − identify files

SYNOPSIS

ident file ... 

DESCRIPTION

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

         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. 

Ident works on text files as well as object files.  For example, if the C program in file f.c contains

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

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

         ident  f.c  f.o
 will print
         f.c:
                $Header:  Header information $
        f.o:
                $Header:  Header information $
 

IDENTIFICATION

Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907. 
Revision Number: 3.0 ; Release Date: 82/12/04 .
Copyright © 1982 by Walter F. Tichy.

SEE ALSO

ci (1), co (1), rcs (1), rcsdiff(1), rcsintro (1), rcsmerge (1), rlog (1), rcsfile (5). 
Walter F. Tichy, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Revision Control System," in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE, Tokyo, Sept. 1982. 

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