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NAME

       what — identify SCCS files (DEVELOPMENT)

SYNOPSIS

       what [−s] file...

DESCRIPTION

       The  what  utility  shall  search  the  given files for all occurrences of the pattern that get (see get)
       substitutes for the %Z% keyword ("@(#)") and shall write to standard output what follows until the  first
       occurrence of one of the following:

           "   >   newline   \   NUL

OPTIONS

       The  what  utility  shall  conform  to the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 12.2, Utility
       Syntax Guidelines.

       The following option shall be supported:

       −s        Quit after finding the first occurrence of the pattern in each file.

OPERANDS

       The following operands shall be supported:

       file      A pathname of a file to search.

STDIN

       Not used.

INPUT FILES

       The input files shall be of any file type.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The following environment variables shall affect the execution of what:

       LANG      Provide a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. (See the
                 Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 8.2, Internationalization  Variables  for  the
                 precedence   of   internationalization  variables  used  to  determine  the  values  of  locale
                 categories.)

       LC_ALL    If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the  other  internationalization
                 variables.

       LC_CTYPE  Determine  the  locale  for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters
                 (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments and input files).

       LC_MESSAGES
                 Determine the locale that should be used to  affect  the  format  and  contents  of  diagnostic
                 messages written to standard error.

       NLSPATH   Determine the location of message catalogs for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS

       Default.

STDOUT

       The standard output shall consist of the following for each file operand:

           "%s:\n\t%s\n", <pathname>, <identification string>

STDERR

       The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.

OUTPUT FILES

       None.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

       None.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values shall be returned:

       0     Any matches were found.

       1     Otherwise.

CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS

       Default.

       The following sections are informative.

APPLICATION USAGE

       The  what  utility  is  intended to be used in conjunction with the SCCS command get, which automatically
       inserts identifying information, but it can also be used where the information is inserted by  any  other
       means.

       When  the string "@(#)" is included in a library routine in a shared library, it might not be found in an
       a.out file using that library routine.

EXAMPLES

       If the C-language program in file f.c contains:

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

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

           what f.c f.o a.out

       writes:

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

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       get

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Chapter 8,  Environment  Variables,  Section  12.2,  Utility
       Syntax Guidelines

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition,
       Standard  for  Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
       Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,  Inc
       and  The  Open Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event
       of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard,  the  original
       IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
       http://www.unix.org/online.html .

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