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31.\"     @(#)what.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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33.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2010 $
34.Dt WHAT 1
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm what
38.Nd "show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file"
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm what
41.Op Fl s
42.Ar
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44.Nm
45reads each
46.Ar file
47and searches for sequences of either the form
48.Sq $
49immediately followed by the system name (sysname) as defined by
50.Xr uname 3 ,
51or the form
52.Dq @(#)
53as inserted by the source code control system (SCCS).
54It prints the remainder
55of the string following this marker, up to a NUL, newline, double
56quote, backslash, or
57.Sq \*(Gt
58character.
59.Pp
60If the
61.Fl s
62option is specified, only the first occurrence of an identification string in
63each file is printed.
64.Sh EXIT STATUS
65The
66.Nm
67utility exits with a return value of 0 if any identification strings were found,
68or with a return value of 1 otherwise.
69.Sh STANDARDS
70The
71.Nm
72utility is compliant with the
73.St -xpg4
74specification.
75.Sh HISTORY
76The
77.Nm
78command appeared in
79.Bx 4.0 .
80.Sh BUGS
81As
82.Bx
83is not licensed to distribute
84.Tn SCCS ,
85this is a rewrite of the
86.Nm
87command which is part of
88.Tn SCCS .
89As such it may not behave exactly the same as that
90command does.
91