ident(1)

ident1

Identify rcs keyword string in files

Usage

ident [-q] [-V] [file ...]

Overview

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

Quiet mode: suppress warnings if no pattern found.

-V, --version

Do nothing, added for compatibility with GNU ident.

Exit status

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

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 39 times.

  1. 2.0.5
  2. 2.1.5–2.1.7.1
  3. 2.2.2–2.2.8
  4. 2.2.9
  5. 3.0–3.2
  6. 3.3–3.5.1
  7. 4.0–6.3
  8. 6.4
  9. 7.0
  10. 7.1
  11. 7.2
  12. 7.3
  13. 7.4
  14. 8.0
  15. 8.1
  16. 8.2
  17. 8.3
  18. 8.4
  19. 9.0
  20. 9.1
  21. 9.2
  22. 9.3
  23. 10.0
  24. 10.1
  25. 10.2
  26. 10.3
  27. 10.4
  28. 11.0
  29. 11.1
  30. 11.2
  31. 11.3
  32. 11.4
  33. 12.0
  34. 12.1
  35. 12.2
  36. 12.3
  37. 12.4
  38. 13.0–13.2
  39. 13.3–15.0
  40. 15.1–16.0

--quiet since FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE; --version since FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE; -V since FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE; -q since FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.

Authors

This version of the ident utility was written by Baptiste Daroussin ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Dag-Erling Smørgrav ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.