WHAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHAT(1)NAME
what — show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file
SYNOPSIS
what [-s] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The what utility searches each specified file for sequences of the form
“@(#)” as inserted by the source code control system. It prints the
remainder of the string following this marker, up to a NUL character,
newline, double quote, “>” character, or backslash.
The following option is available:
-s Stop searching each file after the first match.
Exit status is 0 if any matches were found, otherwise 1.
SEE ALSOident(1), strings(1)HISTORY
The what command appeared in 4.0BSD.
BUGS
This is a rewrite of the SCCS command of the same name, and behavior may
not be identical.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD