IDENT(1)							      IDENT(1)

NAME
       ident - identify files

SYNOPSIS
       ident [ -q ] [ file ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       ident  searches for all occurrences of the pattern $keyword:...$ in the
       named files or, if no file name appears, the standard input.

       These patterns are normally inserted automatically by the  RCS  command
       co(1), 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 exam‐
       ple, if the C program in f.c contains

	      char  rcsid[]  =	"$Id: f.c,v 5.0 1990/08/22 09:09:36 eggert Exp
	      $";

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

	      ident  f.c  f.o

       will output

	      f.c:
		  $Id: f.c,v 5.0 1990/08/22 09:09:36 eggert Exp $
	      f.o:
		  $Id: f.c,v 5.0 1990/08/22 09:09:36 eggert Exp $

IDENTIFICATION
       Author: Walter F. Tichy.
       Revision Number: 5.0; Release Date: 1990/08/22.
       Copyright © 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.
       Copyright © 1990 by Paul Eggert.

SEE ALSO
       ci(1), co(1), rcs(1), rcsdiff(1),  rcsintro(1),	rcsmerge(1),  rlog(1),
       rcsfile(5)
       Walter  F. Tichy, RCS--A System for Version Control, Software--Practice
       & Experience 15, 7 (July 1985), 637-654.

GNU				  1990/08/22			      IDENT(1)

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