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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 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93 31.\" 32.\" $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/whereis/whereis.1,v 1.21 2002/11/26 17:33:36 ru Exp $ 33.\" 34.Dd October 10, 2014 35.Dt WHEREIS 1 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm whereis 39.Nd locate programs 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl abmqsux 43.Op Fl BMS Ar dir ... Fl f 44.Ar program ... 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48utility checks the standard binary, manual page, and source 49directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any 50it finds. 51The supplied program names are first stripped of leading 52path name components, any single trailing extension added by 53.Xr gzip 1 , 54.Xr compress 1 , 55or 56.Xr bzip2 1 , 57and the leading 58.Ql s.\& 59or trailing 60.Ql ,v 61from a source code control system. 62.Pp 63The default path searched is the string returned by the 64.Xr sysctl 8 65utility for the 66.Va user.cs_path 67string, with 68.Pa /usr/libexec , 69.Pa /usr/games 70and the current user's 71.Ev $PATH 72appended. 73Manual pages are searched by default along the 74.Ev $MANPATH . 75Program sources are located in a list of known standard places, 76including all the subdirectories of 77.Pa /usr/src 78and 79.Pa /usr/dports . 80.Pp 81The following options are available: 82.Bl -tag -width indent 83.It Fl B 84Specify directories to search for binaries. 85Requires the 86.Fl f 87option. 88.It Fl M 89Specify directories to search for manual pages. 90Requires the 91.Fl f 92option. 93.It Fl S 94Specify directories to search for program sources. Requires the 95.Fl f 96option. 97.It Fl a 98Report all matches instead of only the first of each requested type. 99.It Fl b 100Search for binaries. 101.It Fl f 102Delimits the list of directories after the 103.Fl B , 104.Fl M , 105or 106.Fl S 107options, and indicates the beginning of the 108.Ar program 109list. 110.It Fl m 111Search for manual pages. 112.It Fl q 113.Pq Dq quiet . 114Suppress the output of the utility name in front of the normal 115output line. 116This can become handy for use in a backquote substitution of a 117shell command line, see 118.Sx EXAMPLES . 119.It Fl s 120Search for source directories. 121.It Fl u 122Search for 123.Dq unusual 124entries. 125A file is said to be unusual if it does not have at least 126one entry of each requested type. 127Only the name of the unusual entry is printed. 128.It Fl x 129Do not use 130.Dq expensive 131tools when searching for source directories. 132Normally, after unsuccessfully searching all the first-level 133subdirectories of the source directory list, 134.Nm 135will ask 136.Xr locate 1 137to find the entry on its behalf. 138Since this can take much longer, it can be turned off with 139.Fl x . 140.El 141.Sh EXAMPLES 142The following finds all utilities under 143.Pa /usr/bin 144that do not have documentation: 145.Pp 146.Dl whereis -m -u /usr/bin/* 147.Pp 148Change to the source code directory of 149.Xr ls 1 : 150.Pp 151.Dl cd `whereis -sq ls` 152.Sh SEE ALSO 153.Xr find 1 , 154.Xr locate 1 , 155.Xr man 1 , 156.Xr which 1 , 157.Xr sysctl 8 158.Sh HISTORY 159The 160.Nm 161utility appeared in 162.Bx 3.0 . 163This version re-implements the historical 164functionality that was lost in 165.Bx 4.4 . 166.Sh AUTHORS 167This implementation of the 168.Nm 169command was written by 170.An J\(:org Wunsch . 171.Sh BUGS 172This re-implementation of the 173.Nm 174utility is not bug-for-bug compatible with historical versions. 175It is believed to be compatible with the version that was shipping with 176.Fx 2.2 177through 178.Fx 4.5 179though. 180.Pp 181The 182.Nm 183utility can report some unrelated source entries when the 184.Fl a 185option is specified. 186