1.\" Copyright (c) 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)whereis.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 04/27/95 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt WHEREIS 1 10.Os BSD 3 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm whereis 13.Nd locate programs 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm whereis 16.Op Ar program ... 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18The 19.Nm whereis 20utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, 21printing out the paths of any it finds. 22.Pp 23The path searched is the string returned by the 24.Xr sysctl 8 25utility for the 26.Dq user.cs_path 27string. 28.Sh SEE ALSO 29.Xr sysctl 8 30.Sh COMPATIBILITY 31The historic flags and arguments for the 32.Nm whereis 33utility are no longer available in this version. 34.Sh HISTORY 35The 36.Nm whereis 37command appeared in 3.0BSD. 38