WHAT(1)              INTERACTIVE UNIX System              WHAT(1)



          NAME
               what - identify SCCS files

          SYNOPSIS
               what [-s] files

          DESCRIPTION
               The what command 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

               The what command 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.  Only one option exists:

                    -s      Quit after finding the first occurrence of pat-
                            tern in each file.

          SEE ALSO
               get(1).

          DIAGNOSTICS
               Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, otherwise 1.

          BUGS
               It is possible that an unintended occurrence of the pattern
               @(#) could be found just by chance, but this causes no harm
               in nearly all cases.










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