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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 June 6, 1993
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 s
45.Op Ar
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility searches each specified
50.Ar file
51for sequences of the form
52.Dq \&@(#)
53as inserted by the source code control system.
54It prints the remainder
55of the string following this marker, up to a NUL character, newline, double
56quote,
57.Dq \&>
58character, or backslash.
59.Pp
60The following option is available:
61.Bl -tag -width Ds
62.It Fl s
63Stop searching each file after the first match.
64.El
65.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
66Exit status is 0 if any matches were found, otherwise 1.
67.Sh SEE ALSO
68.Xr ident 1 ,
69.Xr strings 1
70.Sh STANDARDS
71The
72.Nm
73utility conforms to
74.St -p1003.1-2001 .
75.Sh HISTORY
76The
77.Nm
78command appeared in
79.Bx 4.0 .
80.Sh BUGS
81This is a rewrite of the
82.Tn SCCS
83command of the same name,
84and behavior may not be identical.
85