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                     36: .Dd April 27, 1995
                     37: .Dt WHEREIS 1
                     38: .Os BSD 3
                     39: .Sh NAME
                     40: .Nm whereis
                     41: .Nd locate programs
                     42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     43: .Nm whereis
                     44: .Op Ar program ...
                     45: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     46: The
                     47: .Nm whereis
                     48: utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs,
                     49: printing out the paths of any it finds.
                     50: .Pp
                     51: The path searched is the string returned by the
                     52: .Xr sysctl 8
                     53: utility for the
                     54: .Dq user.cs_path
                     55: string.
                     56: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     57: .Xr sysctl 8
                     58: .Sh COMPATIBILITY
                     59: The historic flags and arguments for the
                     60: .Nm whereis
                     61: utility are no longer available in this version.
                     62: .Sh HISTORY
                     63: The
                     64: .Nm whereis
                     65: command appeared in 3.0BSD.