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WHEREIS(1)			 User Commands			    WHEREIS(1)

NAME
       whereis	-  locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a com‐
       mand

SYNOPSIS
       whereis [options] [-BMS directory... -f] name...

DESCRIPTION
       whereis locates the binary, source and manual files for	the  specified
       command	names.	The supplied names are first stripped of leading path‐
       name components and any (single) trailing extension of  the  form  .ext
       (for  example:  .c)  Prefixes  of s.  resulting from use of source code
       control are also dealt with.   whereis  then  attempts  to  locate  the
       desired	program in the standard Linux places, and in the places speci‐
       fied by $PATH and $MANPATH.

       The search restrictions (options -b, -m	and  -s)  are  cumulative  and
       apply  to  the  subsequent  name patterns on the command line.  Any new
       search restriction resets the search mask.  For example,

	      whereis -bm ls tr -m gcc

       searches for "ls" and "tr" binaries and man pages, and  for  "gcc"  man
       pages only.

       The  options  -B,  -M and -S reset search paths for the subsequent name
       patterns.  For example,

	      whereis -m ls -M /usr/share/man/man1 -f cal

       searches for "ls" man pages in all default paths, but for "cal" in  the
       /usr/share/man/man1 directory only.

OPTIONS
       -b     Search for binaries.

       -m     Search for manuals.

       -s     Search for sources.

       -u     Only show the command names that have unusual entries.  A
	      command is said to be unusual if it does	not  have  just
	      one  entry  of  each  explicitly	requested  type.   Thus
	      'whereis -m -u *' asks for those	files  in  the	current
	      directory	 which have no documentation file, or more than
	      one.

       -B list
	      Limit the places where whereis searches for binaries,  by
	      a whitespace-separated list of directories.

       -M list
	      Limit  the  places where whereis searches for manuals and
	      documentation in Info format, by	a  whitespace-separated
	      list of directories.

       -S list
	      Limit the places where whereis searches for sources, by a
	      whitespace-separated list of directories.

       -f     Terminates the directory list and signals	 the  start  of
	      filenames.  It must be used when any of the -B, -M, or -S
	      options is used.

       -l     Output the list of effective lookup paths that whereis is
	      using.   When  none  of  -B,  -M, or -S is specified, the
	      option will output the hard-coded paths that the	command
	      was able to find on the system.

EXAMPLE
       To  find all files in /usr/bin which are not documented in /usr/
       man/man1 or have no source in /usr/src:

	      cd /usr/bin
	      whereis -u -ms -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src -f *

FILE SEARCH PATHS
       By default whereis tries to find files  from  hard-coded	 paths,
       which  are  defined with glob patterns.	The command attempts to
       use the contents of $PATH and $MANPATH environment variables  as
       default	search path.  The easiest way to know what paths are in
       use is to add the -l listing option.  Effects of the -B, -M, and
       -S are displayed with -l.

ENVIRONMENT
       WHEREIS_DEBUG=all
	      enables debug output.

AVAILABILITY
       The  whereis  command  is  part of the util-linux package and is
       available from Linux Kernel Archive  ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub
       /linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.

util-linux			 October 2014			    WHEREIS(1)
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