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36.Dd June 6, 1993
37.Dt WHAT 1
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm what
41.Nd "show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file"
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm
44.Op Fl s
45.Ar file Ar ...
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility searches each specified
50.Ar file
51for sequences of the form
52.Dq \&@(#)
53as inserted by the source code control system.  It prints the remainder
54of the string following this marker, up to a NUL character, newline, double
55quote,
56.Dq \&>
57character, or backslash.
58.Pp
59The following option is available:
60.Bl -tag -width Ds
61.It Fl s
62Stop searching each file after the first match.
63.El
64.Pp
65Exit status is 0 if any matches were found, otherwise 1.
66.Sh BUGS
67This is a rewrite of the
68.Tn SCCS
69command of the same name,
70and behavior may not be identical.
71.Sh SEE ALSO
72.Xr ident 1 ,
73.Xr strings 1
74.Sh HISTORY
75The
76.Nm
77command appeared in
78.Bx 4.0 .
79