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| Chapter 18 The RCS Utility |

## ident

    ident [option] [files]

Extract keyword/value symbols from `files`. `files` can be text files, object files, or dumps.

### Option

-q

  Suppress warning message when no keyword patterns are found.

### Examples

If file prog.c is compiled, and it contains this line of code:

>     char rcsID[] = "$Author: george $

then the following output is produced:

>     % ident prog.c prog.o
>     prog.c:
>          $Author: george $
>     prog.o:
>          $Author: george $

Show keywords for all RCS files (suppress warnings):

>     co -p RCS/*,v | ident -q

Reference: co |  | Reference: merge