.\" ident.1,v 1.2 1993/08/02 17:51:21 mycroft Exp -*- nroff -*-
.TH IDENT 1 6/29/83 "Purdue University"
searches the named files for all occurrences of the pattern
\fI$keyword:...$\fR, where \fIkeyword\fR is one of
These patterns are normally inserted automatically by the RCS command \fIco (1)\fR,
but can also be inserted manually.
\fIIdent\fR works on text files as well as object files.
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
$\&Header: Header information $
$\&Header: Header information $
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907.
Copyright \(co 1982 by Walter F. Tichy.
ci (1), co (1), rcs (1), rcsdiff(1), rcsintro (1), rcsmerge (1), rlog (1), rcsfile (5).
Walter F. Tichy, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Revision Control
System," in \fIProceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software
Engineering\fR, IEEE, Tokyo, Sept. 1982.