WHAT(1)

NAME
what - search files for SCCS identifiers

SYNOPSIS
what [-s] file ...

DESCRIPTION
The what utility reads each file operand and searches for sequences of the form “@(#)” as inserted by SCCS and SCCS-compatible version control systems. It prints the remainder of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double quote, backslash, or “>” character.

If the -s option is specified, only the first occurrence of an identification string in each file is printed.

EXIT STATUS
The what utility exits 0 if any matches were found, and 1 otherwise.

STANDARDS
The what utility conforms to xpg4.2.

HISTORY
The what command appeared in 4.0BSD.

BUGS
As BSD is not licensed to distribute SCCS this is a rewrite of the what command which is part of SCCS, and may not behave exactly the same as that command does.