BK-WHAT(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

bk what — look for SCCS what strings. This cutie is straight out of the BitKeeper User’s Manual, and it’s giving tiny detective for embedded ID strings energy. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bk [−r] what [file ... | −]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the bk what command looks through the specified list of file[s] for strings that start with the SCCS “what” string @(#) — which can be stated as %Z% in a source file — and then prints the entire string. no cap, the whole thing. 🫶

If a C program contains:

           char sccsid[] = "@(#)some ident info";

and the program is compiled to yield a program a.out, then the command:

           what a.out

will produce:

           a.out:
               some ident info

That’s it, that’s the magic. ✨

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• bk‐keywords — go peek, bestie 👀

👑 CATEGORY 👑

File — category: iconic. periodt. 💖

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