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                     37: .Dd April 27, 1995
                     38: .Dt WHEREIS 1
                     39: .Os BSD 3
                     40: .Sh NAME
                     41: .Nm whereis
                     42: .Nd locate programs
                     43: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     44: .Nm whereis
1.3     ! aaron      45: .Ar name Op Ar ...
1.1       millert    46: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     47: The
                     48: .Nm whereis
                     49: utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified name,
                     50: printing out the paths of any it finds that are executable by the
                     51: user.
                     52: .Pp
                     53: The path searched is the string returned by the
                     54: .Xr sysctl 8
                     55: utility for the
                     56: .Dq user.cs_path
                     57: string.
                     58: .Sh RETURN VALUES
                     59: The
                     60: .Nm
                     61: utility exits with one of the following values:
                     62: .Bl -tag -width 4n
                     63: .It 0
1.3     ! aaron      64: All names were successfully resolved.
1.1       millert    65: .It 1
1.3     ! aaron      66: Some names were resolved but not all.
1.1       millert    67: .It 2
1.3     ! aaron      68: No names were resolved.
1.1       millert    69: .It -1
                     70: A system error occurred.
                     71: .El
                     72: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     73: .Xr which 1 ,
                     74: .Xr sysctl 8
                     75: .Sh COMPATIBILITY
                     76: The historic flags and arguments for the
                     77: .Nm whereis
                     78: utility are no longer available in this version.
                     79: .Sh HISTORY
                     80: The
                     81: .Nm whereis
1.2       mickey     82: command appeared in
                     83: .Bx 3.0 .