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32.\"     @(#)what.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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34.\" $FreeBSD$
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36.Dd December 14, 2006
37.Dt WHAT 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm what
41.Nd "show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file"
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl qs
45.Op Ar
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility searches each specified
50.Ar file
51for sequences of the form
52.Dq Li @(#)
53as inserted by the
54.Tn SCCS
55source code control system.
56It prints the remainder
57of the string following this marker, up to a NUL character, newline, double
58quote,
59.Ql \&>
60character, or backslash.
61.Pp
62The following options are available:
63.Bl -tag -width indent
64.It Fl q
65Only output the match text, rather than formatting it.
66.It Fl s
67Stop searching each file after the first match.
68.El
69.Sh EXIT STATUS
70Exit status is 0 if any matches were found, otherwise 1.
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr ident 1 ,
73.Xr strings 1
74.Sh STANDARDS
75The
76.Nm
77utility conforms to
78.St -p1003.1-2001 .
79The
80.Fl q
81option is a non-standard
82.Fx
83extension which may not be available on other operating systems.
84.Sh HISTORY
85The
86.Nm
87command appeared in
88.Bx 4.0 .
89.Sh BUGS
90This is a rewrite of the
91.Tn SCCS
92command of the same name,
93and behavior may not be identical.
94