ident(1)              MPE/iX Shell and Utilities              ident(1)
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  NAME
       ident -- look for keywords in a file

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

  DESCRIPTION
       ident searches the named files (or the standard input if no files
       are specified) for all occurrences of the pattern $keyword:...$,
       where keyword is one of the following RCS keywords:

          Author
          Date
          Header
          Id
          Locker
          Log
          Revision
          RCSfile
          Source
          State

       The file must be checked out for the ident command to work.

       The ident command works on object files and dumps as well as text
       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, the command

          ident f.c f.o

       prints

          f.c:
                  $Header:  Header information $
          f.o:
                  $Header:  Header information $

  Options
       ident accepts the following options:

       -Ffile...
            provides an alternate way to specify file names.  The given
            file is a text file containing a list of file names, one
            file name per line.  ident checks all the files named in
            file, using the options specified on the command line.  Mul-
            tiple -F options may be specified on the command line, and
            can either be grouped together or interspersed between
            options.

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  ident(1)              MPE/iX Shell and Utilities              ident(1)
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       -q   suppresses the warning given if there are no keywords in a
            file.

  DIAGNOSTICS
       Possible exit status values are:

       0  Successful completion.

       1  Failure due to an invalid command line argument, or inability
          to open input file.

  Messages

       Message:  input file "filename": system error
       Cause:    See syserror(3).
       Action:   See syserror(3).

       Message:  No filename present for -F option.
       Cause:    You specified the -F option, but did not provide a file
                 name as its argument.
       Action:   Provide the missing file name.

       Message:  Unknown option "-option"
       Cause:    You specified an option that is not valid for ident.
       Action:   Check the DESCRIPTION section of this man page for a
                 list of valid ident options.

       For a list of error messages common to all RCS utilities, see
       rcserror(3).

  PORTABILITY
       All UNIX systems.

       The -F option is an extension to traditional implementations of
       ident.

  MPE/iX NOTES
       For information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may
       affect the operation of this utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX
       Implementation Considerations.

  SEE ALSO
       ci(1), co(1), rcs(1), rcsclean(1), rcsdiff(1), rcsmerge(1),
       rlog(1), rcsfile(3)

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