NAME

ident — identify RCS keyword string in files

SYNOPSIS

ident

[-q] [-V] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

The ident utility searches for all instances of the pattern ‘$keyword: text$’ in files.

If no arguments are passed, then ident parses the standard input.

keyword must only be composed of alphanumeric values in the C locale, followed by ‘:’ and a space.

These options are supported:

-q, --quiet

Quiet mode: suppress warnings if no pattern found.

-V, --version

Do nothing, added for compatibility with GNU ident.

EXIT STATUS

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

AUTHORS

This version of the ident utility was written by Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> and Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>.