WHAT

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BSD 4  

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

what name ...  

DESCRIPTION

What reads each file name and searches for sequences of the form ``@(#)'' as inserted by the source code control system. It prints the remainder of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double quote, or ``> character.''  

BUGS

As BSD is not licensed to distribute SCCS this is a rewrite of the what command which is part of SCCS and may not behave exactly the same as that command does.  

HISTORY

The what command appeared in BSD 4.0


 

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