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36.Dd February 22, 1999
37.Dt WHAT 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm what
41.Nd search files for SCCS identifiers
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl s
45.Ar
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility reads each
50.Ar file
51operand and searches for sequences of the form
52.Dq \&@(#)
53as inserted by the source code control system.  It prints the remainder
54of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double
55quote, backslash or
56.Dq \&>
57character.
58.Pp
59If the
60.Fl s
61option is specified, only the first occurence of an idenfication string in
62each file is printed.
63.Sh EXIT STATUS
64The
65.Nm
66utility exits 0 if any matches were found, and 1 otherwise.
67.Sh STANDARDS
68The
69.Nm
70utility conforms to
71.St -xpg4.2 .
72.Sh BUGS
73As
74.Bx
75is not licensed to distribute
76.Tn SCCS
77this is a rewrite of the
78.Nm
79command which is part of
80.Tn SCCS ,
81and may not behave exactly the same as that
82command does.
83.Sh HISTORY
84The
85.Nm
86command appeared in
87.Bx 4.0 .
88