1.\" $NetBSD: whereis.1,v 1.12 2001/12/01 16:43:27 wiz 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)whereis.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/27/95 35.\" 36.Dd April 27, 1995 37.Dt WHEREIS 1 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm whereis 41.Nd locate programs 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl p 45.Ar program 46.Op Ar program ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Nm 50utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, 51printing out the paths of any it finds. 52.Pp 53The default path searched is the string returned by the 54.Xr sysctl 8 55utility for the 56.Dq user.cs_path 57string. 58If the 59.Op Fl p 60option is specified, then the value of the environment 61variable 62.Ev PATH 63is used instead. 64.Sh SEE ALSO 65.Xr which 1 , 66.Xr sysctl 8 67.Sh COMPATIBILITY 68The historic flags and arguments for the 69.Nm 70utility are no longer available in this version. 71.Sh HISTORY 72The 73.Nm 74command appeared in 75.Bx 3.0 . 76