1.\" $NetBSD: whereis.1,v 1.14 2003/08/07 11:17:17 agc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)whereis.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 31.\" 32.Dd April 3, 2003 33.Dt WHEREIS 1 34.Os 35.Sh NAME 36.Nm whereis 37.Nd locate programs 38.Sh SYNOPSIS 39.Nm 40.Op Fl p 41.Ar program 42.Op Ar program ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, 47printing out the paths of any it finds. 48.Pp 49The default path searched is the string returned by the 50.Xr sysctl 8 51utility for the 52.Dq user.cs_path 53string. 54If the 55.Op Fl p 56option is specified, then the value of the environment 57variable 58.Ev PATH 59is used instead. 60.Sh EXIT STATUS 61The 62.Nm 63utility exits 0 on success, 1 on general error, 2 if only some 64programs were located and 3 if none were. 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr whatis 1 , 67.Xr which 1 , 68.Xr sysctl 8 69.Sh COMPATIBILITY 70The historic flags and arguments for the 71.Nm 72utility are no longer available in this version. 73.Sh HISTORY 74The 75.Nm 76command appeared in 77.Bx 3.0 . 78