what(1)                             CLIX                             what(1)



  NAME

    what - Identifies SCCS files

  SYNOPSIS

    what [-s] file ...

  FLAGS

    -s   Quits after finding the first occurrence of pattern in each file.

  DESCRIPTION

    The what command searches the given files for all occurrences of the
    pattern that the get command substitutes for %Z% (this is @(#) at this
    printing) and displays what follows until the first tilde (~), right
    angle-bracket (>), newline, \ , or null character.  For example, if the C
    program in file f.c contains the following

    char ident[] = "@(#)identification information";

    and f.c is compiled to yield f.o and a.out, then the following command

    what f.c f.o a.out

    will display

    f.c: identification information
    f.o: identification information
    a.out: identification information

    The what command is intended to be used in conjunction with the get
    command, which automatically inserts identifying information, but it can
    also be used where the information is inserted manually.

  NOTES

    It is possible that an unintended occurrence of the pattern @(#) could be
    found just by chance, but this causes no harm in nearly all cases.

  EXIT VALUES

    Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, otherwise 1.  Use help(1) for
    explanations.

  RELATED INFORMATION

    Commands: get(1), help(1)





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