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WHEREIS(1)              NetBSD General Commands Manual              WHEREIS(1)


NAME

     whereis -- locate programs


SYNOPSIS

     whereis [-p] program [program ...]


DESCRIPTION

     The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the speci-
     fied programs, printing out the paths of any it finds.

     The default path searched is the string returned by the sysctl(8) utility
     for the ``user.cs_path'' string.  If the [-p] option is specified, then
     the value of the environment variable PATH is used instead.


EXIT STATUS

     The whereis utility exits 0 on success, 1 on general error, 2 if only
     some programs were located and 3 if none were.


SEE ALSO

     whatis(1), which(1), sysctl(8)


COMPATIBILITY

     The historic flags and arguments for the whereis utility are no longer
     available in this version.


HISTORY

     The whereis command appeared in 3.0BSD.

NetBSD 6.1.2                     April 3, 2003                    NetBSD 6.1.2