1.\" $OpenBSD: whereis.1,v 1.19 2019/07/11 06:30:35 deraadt 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: July 11 2019 $ 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 47.Ar name , 48printing out the paths of any it finds that are executable by the 49user. 50.Pp 51The path searched is: 52.\" The path below should be the expansion of _PATH_STDPATH from <paths.h> 53.D1 /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin 54.Pp 55If the 56.Fl a 57flag is given, 58.Nm 59will return a list of all matches instead of just the first match. 60.Sh EXIT STATUS 61The 62.Nm 63utility exits with one of the following values: 64.Pp 65.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 66.It 0 67All names were successfully resolved. 68.It 1 69Some names were resolved but not all. 70.It 2 71No names were resolved. 72.El 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr apropos 1 , 75.Xr find 1 , 76.Xr locate 1 , 77.Xr which 1 78.Sh HISTORY 79The 80.Nm 81command first appeared in 82.Bx 2 , 83but the original version was legally tainted 84and was not included as part of the 85.Bx 4.4 86release, such that most of the original functionality was lost. 87.Pp 88The 89.Fl a 90option first appeared in 91.Ox 2.3 . 92.Sh AUTHORS 93The original version was written by 94.An Bill Joy . 95