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WHAT(1)			    General Commands Manual		       WHAT(1)

NAME
       what  --	 show what versions of object modules were used	to construct a
       file

SYNOPSIS
       what [-qs] [file	...]

DESCRIPTION
       The what	utility	searches each specified	file for sequences of the form
       "@(#)" as inserted by the SCCS source code control system.   It	prints
       the  remainder of the string following this marker, up to a NUL charac-
       ter, newline, double quote, `>' character, or backslash.

       The following options are available:

       -q      Only output the match text, rather than formatting it.

       -s      Stop searching each file	after the first	match.

EXIT STATUS
       Exit status is 0	if any matches were found, otherwise 1.

SEE ALSO
       ident(1), strings(1)

STANDARDS
       The what	utility	conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 ("POSIX.1").  The  -q
       option  is  a non-standard FreeBSD extension which may not be available
       on other	operating systems.

HISTORY
       The what	command	appeared in 4.0BSD.

BUGS
       This is a rewrite of the	SCCS command of	the same  name,	 and  behavior
       may not be identical.

FreeBSD	14.3		       December	14, 2006		       WHAT(1)

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