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WHEREIS(1) General Commands Manual WHEREIS(1)

whereis — locate programs

whereis [program ...]

The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it finds.

The path searched is the string returned by the sysctl(8) utility for the “user.cs_path” string.

sysctl(8)

The historic flags and arguments for the whereis utility are no longer available in this version.

The whereis command appeared in 3.0BSD.

BSD 3 April 27, 1995 WHEREIS(1)