February 22, 1999 WHAT 1

### NAME

what - search files for SCCS identifiers

### SYNOPSIS

what [-s]

### DESCRIPTION

The what utility reads each file operand 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, backslash, or ``>'' character.

If the -s option is specified, only the first occurrence of an identification string in each file is printed.

### EXIT STATUS

The what utility exits 0 if any matches were found, and 1 otherwise.

### STANDARDS

The what utility conforms to X/Open Portability Guide Issue 4, Version 2 (``XPG4.2'') .

### HISTORY

The what command appeared in 4.0BSD.

### BUGS

As BSD is not licensed to distribute SCCS this is a rewrite of the what command which is part of SCCS, and may not behave exactly the same as that command does.