sccs-val, val — Validate an SCCS File

Synopsis

/usr/ccs/bin/val -
/usr/ccs/bin/val [-s][-m name][-r sid][-y type] s.filename... 

Description

Use the SCCS val (validate) command to determine if the specified s. files meet the characteristics specified by the indicated arguments. val can process up to 50 files on a single command line.

val has a special dash (-) argument that reads the standard input until the end-of-file condition is detected. Each line read is independently processed as if it were a command-line argument list.

val generates diagnostic messages to the standard output for each command line and file processed and also returns a single 8-bit code on exit as described below.

The 8-bit code returned by val is a disjunction of the ...

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