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1.15    ! lum        33: .Dd $Mdocdate: October 9 2011 $
1.1       millert    34: .Dt WHEREIS 1
1.4       aaron      35: .Os
1.1       millert    36: .Sh NAME
                     37: .Nm whereis
                     38: .Nd locate programs
                     39: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     40: .Nm whereis
1.11      sobrado    41: .Op Fl a
                     42: .Ar name ...
1.1       millert    43: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     44: The
1.7       aaron      45: .Nm
1.15    ! lum        46: utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified
        !            47: .Ar name ,
1.1       millert    48: printing out the paths of any it finds that are executable by the
                     49: user.
                     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.
1.11      sobrado    56: .Pp
                     57: If the
                     58: .Fl a
                     59: flag is given,
                     60: .Nm
                     61: will return a list of all matches instead of just the first match.
1.12      jmc        62: .Sh EXIT STATUS
1.1       millert    63: The
                     64: .Nm
                     65: utility exits with one of the following values:
1.5       aaron      66: .Pp
1.12      jmc        67: .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
1.1       millert    68: .It 0
1.3       aaron      69: All names were successfully resolved.
1.1       millert    70: .It 1
1.3       aaron      71: Some names were resolved but not all.
1.1       millert    72: .It 2
1.3       aaron      73: No names were resolved.
1.1       millert    74: .El
                     75: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.5       aaron      76: .Xr apropos 1 ,
                     77: .Xr find 1 ,
                     78: .Xr locate 1 ,
1.1       millert    79: .Xr which 1 ,
                     80: .Xr sysctl 8
                     81: .Sh HISTORY
                     82: The
1.7       aaron      83: .Nm
1.14      schwarze   84: command first appeared in
                     85: .Bx 2 ,
                     86: but the original version was legally tainted
                     87: and was not included as part of the
                     88: .Bx 4.4
                     89: release, such that most of the original functionality was lost.
                     90: .Pp
                     91: The
                     92: .Fl a
                     93: option first appeared in
                     94: .Ox 2.3 .
                     95: .Sh AUTHORS
                     96: The original version was written by
                     97: .An Bill Joy .