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what 

what [

option

] 

files

Search files for the pattern @(#) and print the text that follows it. Actually, the pattern searched for is the value of %Z% , but the get command expands this keyword to @(#) . The main purpose of what is to print identification strings.

Option

-s

Quit after finding the first occurrence of a pattern.

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