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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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