Installation

pip install pnu-ident

IDENT(1)

NAME

ident — identify RCS keyword strings in files

SYNOPSIS

ident [-q] [--debug] [--help|-?] [-V|--version] [--] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION

The ident utility searches for all instances of the pattern ‘$keyword: text $’ in file(s).

keyword must only be composed of alphanumeric values in the C locale, followed by ‘:’ and a space.

If no arguments are passed, then ident parses the standard input.

The pattern normally requires a colon and a space immediately after the keyword and a space immediately before the terminating $, but for Subversion 1.2 (and later) compatibility, ident will also recognize the pattern ‘$keyword:: text $’ (i.e., two colons and a space) and the pattern ‘$keyword:: text #$’ (likewise, with a hash before the terminating $). These are the fixed-width keyword syntax.

To summarize, the three recognized patterns are:

• $keyword: text $
• $keyword:: text $
• $keyword:: text #$

OPTIONS

These options are supported:

ENVIRONMENT

The IDENT_DEBUG environment variable can be set to any value to enable debug mode.

The FLAVOUR or IDENT_FLAVOUR environment variables can be set to one of the following values, to implement only the corresponding options and behaviours.

• bsd | bsd:freebsd : FreeBSD ident(1)
• gnu | gnu:linux | linux : GNU/Linux ident(1)

EXIT STATUS

The ident utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

what(1), strings(1)

STANDARDS

The ident utility is not a standard UNIX command, though a usual one on Unix-like systems.

This re-implementation tries to follow the PEP 8 style guide for Python code.

PORTABILITY

Tested OK under Windows.

HISTORY

The ident command appeared with the Revision Control System (RCS) in 1982, and was written by Walter F. Tichy at Purdue University. RCS is now maintained by the GNU Project.

This re-implementation was made for the PNU project.

LICENSE

It is available under the 3-clause BSD license.

AUTHORS

Hubert Tournier

This manual page is based on the one written for FreeBSD by Baptiste Daroussin bapt@FreeBSD.org.

CAVEATS

In the original RCS ident command, option -V printed RCS version number. Our re-implementation prints its own version.