what(1) User Commands what(1)NAMEwhat - extract SCCS version information from a file
SYNOPSISwhat [-s] filename...
DESCRIPTION
The what utility searches each filename for occurrences of the pattern
@(#) that the SCCS get command (see sccs-get(1)) substitutes for the
%Z% ID keyword, and prints what follows up to a ", >, NEWLINE, \, or
NULL character.
OPTIONS
The following option is supported:
-s Stops after the first occurrence of the pattern.
EXAMPLES
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:
example% what program.c program.o a.out
produces:
program.c: identification information
program.o: identification information
a.out: identification information
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Any matches were found.
1 No matches found.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
that affect the execution of what: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES,
and NLSPATH.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWsprot │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Standard │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOsccs(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), environ(5), standards(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 5.10 30 Sep 2002 what(1)
