WHEREIS(1) MachTen Reference Manual WHEREIS(1)

NAME
whereis - locate programs

SYNOPSIS
whereis [program ...]

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

The path searched is the string returned by the sysctl(8) utility for the
‘‘user.cs_path’’ string.

SEE ALSO
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.

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