what(1)

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | DIAGNOSTICS | BUGS

NAME

what- extract SCCS version information from a file

SYNOPSIS

what [-s] filename...

DESCRIPTION

what searches each filename for occurrences of the pattern @(#) that the SCCS get command (see sccs-get(1)) substitutes for the @(#) ID keyword, and prints what follows up to a ", >, NEWLINE, \, or null character.

OPTIONS

The following option is supported:

-s

Stop after the first occurrence of the pattern.

EXAMPLES

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Example 1 Extracting SCCS version information




If a C program in file program.c contains

char sccsid[ ] = " @(#)identification information ";

and program.c is compiled to yield program.o and a.out, the command:

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example% what program.c program.o a.out

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produces:

program.c:

identification information

program.o:

identification information

a.out:

identification information

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ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWsprot

SEE ALSO

sccs(1), sccs-admin(1), sccs-cdc(1), sccs-comb(1), sccs-delta(1), sccs-get(1), sccs-help(1), sccs-prs(1), sccs-prt(1), sccs-rmdel(1), sccs-sact(1), sccs-sccsdiff(1), sccs-unget(1), sccs-val(1), sccsfile(4), attributes(5)

DIAGNOSTICS

Use the SCCS help command for explanations (see sccs-help(1)).

BUGS

There is a remote possibility that a spurious occurrence of the `@(#)' pattern could be found by what.

SunOS 5.8  Last Revised 1 Nov 1999

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | DIAGNOSTICS | BUGS