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whereis(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands whereis(1B)

NAME
whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a com‐
mand

SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/whereis [-bmsu] [-BMS directory... -f] filename...

DESCRIPTION
The whereis utility 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,
for example, .c. Prefixes of s. resulting from use of source code con‐
trol are also dealt with. whereis then attempts to locate the desired
program in a list of standard places:

etc
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/ccs/bin
/usr/ccs/lib
/usr/lang
/usr/lbin
/usr/lib
/usr/sbin
/usr/ucb
/usr/ucblib
/usr/ucbinclude
/usr/games
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/new
/usr/old
/usr/hosts
/usr/include
/usr/etc

OPTIONS
The following options are supported:

-b Searches only for binaries.

-B Changes or otherwise limits the places where whereis searches for
binaries.

-f Terminates the last directory list and signals the start of file
names, and must be used when any of the -B, -M, or -S options are
used.

-m Searches only for manual sections.

-M Changes or otherwise limits the places where whereis searches for
manual sections.

-s Searches only for sources.

-S Changes or otherwise limit the places where whereis searches for
sources.

-u Searches 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 *' asks for those files in the current directory which have no
documentation.

EXAMPLES
Example 1 Finding files

Find all files in /usr/bin which are not documented in
/usr/share/man/man1 with source in /usr/src/cmd:

example% cd /usr/ucb
example% whereis -u -M /usr/share/man/man1 -S /usr/src/cmd -f *

FILES
o /usr/src/*

o /usr/{doc,man}/*

o /etc, /usr/{lib,bin,ucb,old,new,local}

ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWscpu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘