IDENT(1) - General Commands Manual #

IDENT(1) - General Commands Manual

NAME #

ident - identify RCS keyword strings in files

SYNOPSIS #

ident [-qV] [file …]

DESCRIPTION #

The ident program searches for the pattern $keyword:… $ from the files specified as argument (or standard input if none are given). See the KEYWORD SUBSTITUTION section of rcs(1) for more information.

The following options are supported:

-q

Quiet mode: suppress warnings if no pattern found.

-V

Display version information and exit.

EXIT STATUS #

The ident utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES #

Given the following source code in file foo.c:

#include <stdio.h>

static char const rcsid[] =
	"$Id: foo.c,v 1.2 2005/11/18 09:34:51 xsa Exp $";

int
main(void) {
	printf("%s\n", rcsid);
	return (0);
}

Compile it and run ident:

$ ident foo.c foo.o
foo.c:
     $Id: foo.c,v 1.2 2005/11/18 09:34:51 xsa Exp $
foo.o:
     $Id: foo.c,v 1.2 2005/11/18 09:34:51 xsa Exp $