WHAT(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHAT(1)NAMEwhat — show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file
SYNOPSISwhat name ...
DESCRIPTIONwhat reads each file name and searches for sequences of the form “@(#)”,
as inserted by the source code control system. It prints the remainder
of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline,
double quote, or “> character.”
BUGS
As BSD is not licensed to distribute SCCS. This is a rewrite of the what
command which is part of SCCS; it may not behave in exactly the same man‐
ner as that command does.
HISTORY
The what command appeared in 4.0BSD.
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