IDENT(1) | General Commands Manual | IDENT(1)

# NAME

`ident` — identify RCS keyword strings in files

# SYNOPSIS

`ident` | [`-qV`] [file ...]

# DESCRIPTION

The `ident` program searches for the pattern $keyword:... $ from the files specified as argument (or standard input if none are given). See the KEYWORD SUBSTITUTION section of rcs(1) for more information.

The following options are supported:

`-q`
  Quiet mode: suppress warnings if no pattern found.
`-V`
  Display version information and exit.

# EXIT STATUS

The `ident` utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

# EXAMPLES

Given the following source code in file foo.c:

    #include <stdio.h>

    static char const rcsid[] =
    	"$Id: foo.c,v 1.2 2005/11/18 09:34:51 xsa Exp $";

    int
    main(void) {
    	printf("%s\n", rcsid);
    	return (0);
    }

Compile it and run `ident`:

    $ ident foo.c foo.o
    foo.c:
         $Id: foo.c,v 1.2 2005/11/18 09:34:51 xsa Exp $
    foo.o:
         $Id: foo.c,v 1.2 2005/11/18 09:34:51 xsa Exp $

# SEE ALSO

ci(1), co(1), cvs(1), rcs(1), rcsclean(1), rcsdiff(1), rcsmerge(1), rlog(1)

June 29, 2013 | Debian