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     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:  1.1 ; Release Date:  87/01/20 .
                    c
          Copyright   1982 by Walter F. Tichy.

     SEE ALSO
          ci(1), co(1), rcs(1), rcsdiff(1), rcsintro(1), rcsmerge(1),
          rlog(1), rcsfile(4).
          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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     ORIGIN
          4.2 BSD





















































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