IDENT(1) General Commands Manual IDENT(1) NAME ident -- identify RCS keyword string in files SYNOPSIS ident [-q] [-V] [file ...] DESCRIPTION The ident utility searches for all instances of the pattern `$keyword: text$' in files. If no arguments are passed, then ident parses the standard input. keyword must only be composed of alphanumeric values in the C locale, fol- lowed by `:' and a space. These options are supported: -q, --quiet Quiet mode: suppress warnings if no pattern found. -V, --version Do nothing, added for compatibility with GNU ident. EXIT STATUS The ident utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. AUTHORS This version of the ident utility was written by Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> and Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>. FreeBSD 15.1 April 25, 2026 IDENT(1)
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