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rcs: Common elements

 
 2.1 Common elements
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 All RCS commands accept ‘--help’ and ‘--version’.  ⇒
 (standards)Command-Line Interfaces.
 
    Aside from ‘--help’ and ‘--version’, RCS commands take the form
 ‘-LETTER[ARG]’, i.e., a hyphen followed by a single letter, optionally
 followed by extra information.  The square braces mean that the extra
 information is optional.  (No square braces means that the extra
 information is required.)  In any case, when specified, the extra
 information *must* abut the letter; there can be no intervening
 whitespace.
 
      co -u 1.4 foo   # wrong, space between -u and 1.4
      co -u1.4  foo   # ok
 
 Furthermore, options must appear before file names (if any) on the
 command line.
 
      ident foo -q    # wrong, option after file name
      ident -q foo    # ok
 
 Lastly, pairs of RCS and working files can be specified in three ways:
 (a) both are given, (b) only the working file is given, (c) only the RCS
 file is given.  For (a), both RCS and working files may have arbitrary
 directory components; RCS commands pair them up intelligently.  For (b),
 RCS commands will look first into the directory ‘./RCS’, if it exists,
 to find the associated RCS file.
 

Menu

 
· Revision options
· Date option
· Description option
· Substitution mode option
· Log message option
· State option
· Working file mtime option minus-M.
· Misc common options
· Delim-separated list
· Environment
 

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