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VERSION(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	       VERSION(1)



[1mNAME
     [0mversion - extract version information from a file

[1mSYNOPSIS
     version [0m[ [1m-k [0m] [ [1m-K [0m] [ file ...  ]

[1mDESCRIPTION
     [0m_V_e_r_s_i_o_n attempts to extract version information from files
     distributed by Acorn.  It produces a one line string per
     file which should identify the file uniquely.

     The options direct various kernel version information to be
     extracted and printed:

     [1m-K          [0mExtracts a kernel version string similar to that
		 produced for executable binaries.

     [1m-k          [0mExtracts a long string used by `/etc/rc' to
		 build the message of the day file `/etc/motd'.

     Files which are not provided by Acorn or are not executable
     binaries do not have encoded version information at the
     front. In an attempt to provide a unique identity for such
     files, _v_e_r_s_i_o_n uses an arithmetic sum of the output of
     _i_d_e_n_t(1) as the version identifier.

[1mSEE ALSO
     [0mident(1)

[1mAUTHOR
     [0mAndy Bray
























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