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.