NAME
ident - identify files

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

DESCRIPTION
Ident searches the named files or, if no file name appears, the
standard input for all occurrences of the pattern $keyword:...$,
where keyword is one of

Author
Date
Header
Id
Locker
Log
Revision
RCSfile
Source
State

These patterns are normally inserted automatically by the RCS
command co(1), but can also be inserted manually. The option -q
suppresses the warning given if there are no patterns in a file.

Ident 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

ident f.c f.o

will print

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

IDENTIFICATION
Author: Walter F. Tichy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN,
47907.
Revision Number: 1.6 ; Release Date: 91/10/06 .
Copyright (c) 1982, 1988, 1989 by Walter F. Tichy.

SEE ALSO
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 Proceedings of the 6th International
Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE, Tokyo, Sept. 1982.