IDENT(1L)                                               IDENT(1L)


NAME
       ident - identify files

SYNOPSIS
       ident [ -q ] [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       Ident  searches  the  named  files  or,  if  no  file name
       appears, the standard input for  all  occurrences  of  the
       pattern $keyword:...$, where keyword is one of

               Author
               Date
               Header
               Id
               Locker
               Log
               Revision
               RCSfile
               Source
               State

       These  patterns are normally inserted automatically by the
       RCS command co(1L), but can also be inserted manually. The
       option  -q  suppresses  the  warning given if there are no
       patterns in a file.

       Ident works on text files as  well  as  object  files  and
       dumps.  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: 1.2 ; Release Date: 89/05/02 .
       Copyright (C) 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.

SEE ALSO
       ci(1L),   co(1L),   rcs(1L),   rcsdiff(1L),  rcsintro(1L),
       rcsmerge(1L), rlog(1L), rcsfile(5L),
       Walter F. Tichy, "Design, Implementation,  and  Evaluation



University                    Purdue                            1

IDENT(1L)                                               IDENT(1L)


       of  a  Revision Control System," in Proceedings of the 6th
       International Conference on  Software  Engineering,  IEEE,
       Tokyo, Sept. 1982.






















































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