WHEREIS(1) | General Commands Manual | WHEREIS(1) |
whereis
— locate
programs
whereis |
[-abmqu ] [-BM
dir ... -f ]
program ... |
The whereis
utility checks the standard
binary, and manual page directories for the specified programs, printing out
the paths of any it finds. The supplied program names are first stripped of
leading path name components and any single trailing extension added by
gzip(1),
compress(1), or
bzip2(1).
The default path searched is the string returned by the
sysctl(8) utility for the
“user.cs_path” string, with
/usr/libexec and the current user's
$PATH
appended. Manual pages are searched by default
along the $MANPATH
.
The following options are available:
-B
-f
option.-M
-f
option.-a
-b
-f
-B
,
-M
, or -S
options, and
indicates the beginning of the program list.-m
-q
-u
The following finds all utilities under /usr/bin that do not have documentation:
whereis -m -u /usr/bin/*
The whereis
utility appeared in
3.0BSD. This version re-implements the historical
functionality that was lost in 4.4BSD.
This implementation of the whereis
command
was written by Jörg Wunsch.
This re-implementation of the whereis
utility is not bug-for-bug compatible with historical versions. It is
believed to be compatible with the version that was shipping with
FreeBSD 2.2 through FreeBSD
4.5 though.
August 22, 2002 | macOS 14.6 |