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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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