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