ident [ -q ] [ file ... ]

Description

Ident searches the named files or, if no file name appears, the standard input for all occurrences of the pattern $keyword:...$, where keyword is one of

Author

Date

Header

Id

Locker

Log

Revision

RCSfile

Source

State

These patterns are normally inserted automatically by the RCS command co(1L), but can also be inserted manually. The option -q suppresses the warning given if there are no patterns in a file.

Ident works on text files as well as object files and dumps. For example, if the C program in file f.c contains

char rcsid[]= "$Header: Header information $";

and f.c is compiled into f.o, then the command

ident f.c f.o

will print

f.c:

$Header: Header information $

f.o:

$Header: Header information $

Identification

Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907. Revision Number: 1.2 ; Release Date: 89/05/02 . Copyright c 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy. RCSDIFF(1L)