.TH IDENT 1L "" "Purdue University"
\fBident\fR [ \fB\-q\fR ] [ file ... ]
searches the named files or, if no file name appears, the standard input
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
but can also be inserted manually. The option \fB\-q\fR suppresses
the warning given if there are no patterns in a file.
\fIIdent\fR 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
$\&Header: Header information $
$\&Header: Header information $
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907.
.VL $Date: 89/05/02 11:13:09 $
Copyright \(co 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.
ci(1L), co(1L), rcs(1L), rcsdiff(1L), rcsintro(1L), rcsmerge(1L), rlog(1L), rcsfile(5L),
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.