User Commands                                             what(1)

NAME
     what - extract SCCS version information from a file

SYNOPSIS
     what [ -s ]  filename ...

DESCRIPTION
     what searches each filename for occurrences of  the  pattern
     @(#) that the SCCS get command (see sccs-get(1)) substitutes
     for the @(#) ID keyword, and prints what follows up to a  ",
     >, NEWLINE, \, or null character.

OPTIONS
     The following option is supported:

     -s    Stop after the first occurrence of the pattern.

EXAMPLES
     Example 1: Extracting SCCS version information

     If a C program in file program.c contains

     char sccsid[] = "@(#)identification information";

     and program.c is compiled to yield program.o and a.out,  the
     command:

     example% what program.c program.o a.out

      produces:

     program.c:
           identification information

     program.o:
           identification information

     a.out:
           identification information

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWsprot                   |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

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User Commands                                             what(1)

SEE ALSO
     sccs(1),  sccs-admin(1),  sccs-cdc(1),  sccs-comb(1),  sccsdelta(1)
     ,   sccs-get(1),  sccs-help(1),  sccs-prs(1),  sccsprt(1)
     ,   sccs-rmdel(1),   sccs-sact(1),   sccs-sccsdiff(1),
     sccs-unget(1), sccs-val(1), sccsfile(4), attributes(5)

DIAGNOSTICS
     Use the  SCCS  help  command  for  explanations  (see  sccshelp(1)
     ).

BUGS
     There is a remote possibility that a spurious occurrence  of
     the `@(#)' pattern could be found by what.

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