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IDENT(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual IDENT(1)
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 mode: suppress warnings if no pattern found.
-V 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>.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 July 25, 2015 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6