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34 .\" @(#)whereis.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
47 .Op Fl BMS Ar dir ... Fl f
52 utility checks the standard binary, manual page, and source
53 directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any
54 it finds. The supplied program names are first stripped of leading
55 path name components, any single trailing extension added by
64 from a source code control system.
66 The default path searched is the string returned by the
73 and the current user's
75 appended. Manual pages are searched by default along the
77 Program sources are located in a list of known standard places,
78 including all the subdirectories of
83 The following options are available:
84 .Bl -tag -width indent
86 Specify directories to search for binaries. Requires the
90 Specify directories to search for manual pages. Requires the
94 Specify directories to search for program sources. Requires the
98 Report all matches instead of only the first of each requested type.
102 Delimits the list of directories after the
107 options, and indicates the beginning of the
111 Search for manual pages.
114 Suppress the output of the utility name in front of the normal
116 This can become handy for use in a backquote substitution of a
117 shell command line, see
120 Search for source directories.
124 entries. A file is said to be unusual if it does not have at least
125 one entry of each requested type.
126 Only the name of the unusual entry is printed.
130 tools when searching for source directories.
131 Normally, after unsuccessfully searching all the first-level
132 subdirectories of the source directory list,
136 to find the entry on its behalf.
137 Since this can take much longer, it can be turned off with
141 The following finds all utilities under
143 that do not have documentation:
145 .Dl whereis -m -u /usr/bin/*
147 Change to the source code directory of
150 .Dl cd `whereis -sq ls`
162 This version re-implements the historical
163 functionality that was lost in
166 This implementation of the
168 command was written by
171 This re-implementation of the
173 utility is not bug-for-bug compatible with historical versions.
174 It is believed to be compatible with the version that was shipping with
182 utility can report some unrelated source entries when the