1 .TH IDENT 1L "" "Purdue University"
3 ident \- identify files
5 \fBident\fR [ \fB\-q\fR ] [ file ... ]
8 searches the named files or, if no file name appears, the standard input
9 for all occurrences of the pattern
10 \fI$keyword:...$\fR, where \fIkeyword\fR is one of
25 These patterns are normally inserted automatically by the RCS command
27 but can also be inserted manually. The option \fB\-q\fR suppresses
28 the warning given if there are no patterns in a file.
30 \fIIdent\fR works on text files as well as object files and dumps.
31 For example, if the C program in file f.c contains
34 char rcsid[] = "$\&Header: Header information $";
37 and f.c is compiled into f.o, then the command
45 $\&Header: Header information $
47 $\&Header: Header information $
53 Author: Walter F. Tichy,
54 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907.
59 .VL $Date: 1993/03/21 09:58:04 $
62 Copyright \(co 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.
64 ci(1L), co(1L), rcs(1L), rcsdiff(1L), rcsintro(1L), rcsmerge(1L), rlog(1L), rcsfile(5L),
66 Walter F. Tichy, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Revision Control
67 System," in \fIProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software
68 Engineering\fR, IEEE, Tokyo, Sept. 1982.