NAME
whereis —
locate programs
SYNOPSIS
whereis |
[-p] program
[program ...] |
DESCRIPTION
Thewhereis utility checks the standard binary
directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it
finds.
The default path searched is the string returned by the
sysctl(8) utility for the “user.cs_path” string. If the
[-p] option is specified, then the value of the
environment variable PATH is used instead.
EXIT STATUS
The whereis utility exits 0 on success, 1
on general error, 2 if only some programs were located and 3 if none
were.
COMPATIBILITY
The historic flags and arguments for the
whereis utility are no longer available in this
version.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The whereis command appeared in
3.0BSD.