1.\" $OpenBSD: whereis.1,v 1.11 2007/08/14 17:41:10 sobrado Exp $ 2.\" $NetBSD: whereis.1,v 1.4 1995/08/31 21:54:51 jtc Exp $ 3.\" 4.\" Copyright (c) 1993 5.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 16.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 17.\" without specific prior written permission. 18.\" 19.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 20.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 21.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 22.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 23.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 24.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 25.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 26.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 27.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 28.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 29.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 30.\" 31.\" @(#)whereis.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 32.\" 33.Dd $Mdocdate: August 14 2007 $ 34.Dt WHEREIS 1 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm whereis 38.Nd locate programs 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Nm whereis 41.Op Fl a 42.Ar name ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified name, 47printing out the paths of any it finds that are executable by the 48user. 49.Pp 50The path searched is the string returned by the 51.Xr sysctl 8 52utility for the 53.Dq user.cs_path 54string. 55.Pp 56If the 57.Fl a 58flag is given, 59.Nm 60will return a list of all matches instead of just the first match. 61.Pp 62The 63.Nm 64utility exits with one of the following values: 65.Pp 66.Bl -tag -width 4n -compact 67.It 0 68All names were successfully resolved. 69.It 1 70Some names were resolved but not all. 71.It 2 72No names were resolved. 73.It \-1 74A system error occurred. 75.El 76.Sh SEE ALSO 77.Xr apropos 1 , 78.Xr find 1 , 79.Xr locate 1 , 80.Xr which 1 , 81.Xr sysctl 8 82.Sh STANDARDS 83The historic flags and arguments for the 84.Nm 85utility are no longer available in this version. 86.Sh HISTORY 87The 88.Nm 89command appeared in 90.Bx 3.0 . 91