WHEREIS(1)WHEREIS(1)NAMEwhereis - locate source, binary, and or manual for program
SYNOPSISwhereis [ -sbm ] [ -u ] [ -SBM dir ... -f ] name ...
DESCRIPTION
Whereis locates source/binary and manuals sections for specified files.
The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname components
and any (single) trailing extension of the form ``.ext'', e.g. ``.c''.
Prefixes of ``s.'' resulting from use of source code control are also
dealt with. Whereis then attempts to locate the desired program in a
list of standard places. If any of the -b, -s or -m flags are given
then whereis searches only for binaries, sources or manual sections
respectively (or any two thereof). The -u flag may be used to search
for unusual entries. A file is said to be unusual if it does not have
one entry of each requested type. Thus ``whereis -m -u *'' asks for
those files in the current directory which have no documentation.
Finally, the -B-M and -S flags may be used to change or otherwise
limit the places where whereis searches. The -f file flags is used to
terminate the last such directory list and signal the start of file
names.
EXAMPLE
The following finds all the files in /usr/bin which are not documented
in /usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src/cmd:
cd /usr/ucb
whereis-u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src/cmd -f *
FILES
/usr/src/*
/usr/{doc,man}/*
/lib, /etc, /usr/{lib,bin,ucb,old,new,local}
BUGS
Since the program uses chdir(2) to run faster, pathnames given with the
-M -S and -B must be full; i.e. they must begin with a ``/''.
3rd Berkeley Distribution May 7, 1986 WHEREIS(1)