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1 | .\" $NetBSD: whereis.1,v 1.7 1998/02/06 06:20:06 perry Exp $ |
| 2 | .\" | |
| 3 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 | |
| 4 | .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. | |
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| 33 | .\" | |
| 34 | .\" @(#)whereis.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 | |
| 35 | .\" | |
| 36 | .Dd April 27, 1995 | |
| 37 | .Dt WHEREIS 1 | |
| 38 | .Os BSD 3 | |
| 39 | .Sh NAME | |
| 40 | .Nm whereis | |
| 41 | .Nd locate programs | |
| 42 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
| 43 | .Nm | |
| 44 | .Op Ar program ... | |
| 45 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| 46 | The | |
| 47 | .Nm | |
| 48 | utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, | |
| 49 | printing out the paths of any it finds. | |
| 50 | .Pp | |
| 51 | The path searched is the string returned by the | |
| 52 | .Xr sysctl 8 | |
| 53 | utility for the | |
| 54 | .Dq user.cs_path | |
| 55 | string. | |
| 56 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 57 | .Xr sysctl 8 | |
| 58 | .Sh COMPATIBILITY | |
| 59 | The historic flags and arguments for the | |
| 60 | .Nm | |
| 61 | utility are no longer available in this version. | |
| 62 | .Sh HISTORY | |
| 63 | The | |
| 64 | .Nm | |
| 65 | command appeared in | |
| 66 | .Bx 3.0 . |