NAME
whereis - locate source, binary, and or manual for
program
SYNOPSIS
whereis [ -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
"/".