Current Supported Releases: Sablime^® v6.0 & v5.2

NAME
     nwhat - look for what strings in any UNIX file

SYNOPSIS
     nwhat [-s] file ...

DESCRIPTION
     nwhat searches the given files for all  occurrences  of  the
     pattern @(#) and prints out the text that follows, up to the
     first ~, >, \n, \, ", or \0  character.   What  strings  are
     commonly inserted into executables for later identification.
     For example, if the C program in the file f.c contains
          char ident[] = "@(#)identification information";
     and f.c is compiled into f.o and a.out, then the command
          what f.c f.o a.out
     will print

          f.c: <identification information>

          f.o: <identification information>

          a.out:
               <identification information>

     nwhat works well in conjunction with the nget(1) and  get(1)
     commands,  which  automatically expand ID keywords like @(#)
     to what strings, but it  can  also  be  used  wherever  such
     strings have been inserted, by whatever means.

OPTION
     -s   Quit after finding the first occurrence of a pattern in
          each file.

CAVEAT
     Accidental occurrences of the pattern @(#) are possible.

DIAGNOSTICS
     The exit status is 0 if any match  is  found,  otherwise  1.
     Note  that  this  may be the opposite of the what(1) command
     found on some systems.

SEE ALSO
     nadmin(1), ncdc(1), ndelta(1), nget(1),  nprs(1),  nsact(1),
     nwhat(1).

SBCS Release 1.2    Last change: 1 April 1994                   1

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