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Command: whereis | Section: 1 | Source: NetBSD | File: whereis.1
WHEREIS(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual WHEREIS(1)
NAME
whereis - locate programs
SYNOPSIS
whereis [-p] program [program ...]
DESCRIPTION
The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the
specified programs, printing out the paths of any it finds.
The default path searched is the string returned by the sysctl(8) utility
for the "user.cs_path" string. If the [-p] option is specified, then the
value of the environment variable PATH is used instead.
EXIT STATUS
The whereis utility exits 0 on success, 1 on general error, 2 if only
some programs were located and 3 if none were.
COMPATIBILITY
The historic flags and arguments for the whereis utility are no longer
available in this version.
SEE ALSO
whatis(1), which(1), sysctl(8)
HISTORY
The whereis command appeared in 3.0BSD.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 April 3, 2003 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8