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whereis(1) whereis(1)
NAME
whereis - locate source, binary, and/or manual for program
SYNOPSIS
whereis [-bsm][-u][
-BMS dir ... -f] name ...
DESCRIPTION
whereis locates source, binary, and manuals sections for specified files. The supplied names are first
stripped of leading path name components and any (single) trailing extension of the form
.ext (such as
.c). Prefixes of
s. resulting from use of SCCS are also dealt with. whereis then attempts to locate
the desired program in a list of standard places.
Options
whereis recognizes the following command-line options:
-b Limit search to binary files. Can be used in conjunction with
-s or -m.
-s Limit search to source-code files. Can be used in conjunction with
-b or -m.
-m Limit search to manual entry files. Can be used in conjunction with
-b or -s.
-u Search for unusual entries. A file is said to be unusual if it does not have one entry
of each requested type. Thus, whereis -m -u * searches for those files in the
current directory that have no corresponding manual entry.
-B dir [dir ... ] Limit search to binaries located in one or more specified directories. Can be used in
conjunction with -S or -M.
-S dir [dir ... ] Limit search to source files located in one or more specified directories. Can be used
in conjunction with -B or -M.
-M dir [dir ... ] Limit search to manual entry files located in one or more specified directories. Can
be used in conjunction with -B or -S.
-f Terminates the last directory list (-B
, -S,or -M options) and identifies the start of
file names.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
EXAMPLES
Find all the files in
/usr/bin that are not documented in /usr/share/man/man1
with source files
in
/usr/src/cmd:
cd /usr/bin
whereis -u -M /usr/share/man/man1 -S /usr/src/cmd -f *
WARNINGS
whereis uses the chdir() system call (see chdir (2)) to run faster. Therefore, path names given with
the -B, -M, and -S options must be absolute path names.
AUTHOR
whereis was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
/usr/src/*
/usr/sbin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/lbin, /usr/ccs/bin
/usr/share/man/*
/usr/local/{man/*, bin, games, include, lib}
/usr/contrib/{man/*, bin, games, include, lib}
/usr/share/man/$LANG/*
/usr/local/man/$LANG/*
/usr/contrib/man/$LANG/*
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