WHAT(1)
NAME
what − identify files for SCCS information
SYNOPSIS
what files
HP-UX COMPATIBILITY
Level: HP-UX/STANDARD
Origin: System III
DESCRIPTION
What searches the given files for all occurrences of the pattern that get(1) substitutes for %Z% (this is @(#) at this printing) and prints out what follows until the first ", >, new-line, \, or null character. For example, if the C program in file f.c contains
char ident[] = "@(#)identification information";
and f.c is compiled to yield f.o and a.out, then the command
what f.c f.o a.out
will print
f.c:
identification information
f.o:
identification information
a.out:
identification information
What is intended to be used in conjunction with the command get(1), which automatically inserts identifying information, but it can also be used where the information is inserted manually.
SEE ALSO
SCCS User’s Guide in HP-UX Concepts and Tutorials.
DIAGNOSTICS
Use help(1) for explanations.
BUGS
It’s possible that an unintended occurrence of the pattern @(#) could be found just by chance, but this causes no harm in nearly all cases.
Hewlett-Packard — last mod. May 11, 2021