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                     37: .Dd April 27, 1995
                     38: .Dt WHEREIS 1
1.4       aaron      39: .Os
1.1       millert    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
1.7     ! aaron      48: .Nm
1.1       millert    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.
1.7     ! aaron      58: .Pp
1.1       millert    59: The
                     60: .Nm
                     61: utility exits with one of the following values:
1.5       aaron      62: .Pp
                     63: .Bl -tag -width 4n -compact
1.1       millert    64: .It 0
1.3       aaron      65: All names were successfully resolved.
1.1       millert    66: .It 1
1.3       aaron      67: Some names were resolved but not all.
1.1       millert    68: .It 2
1.3       aaron      69: No names were resolved.
1.7     ! aaron      70: .It \-1
1.1       millert    71: A system error occurred.
                     72: .El
                     73: .Sh SEE ALSO
1.5       aaron      74: .Xr apropos 1 ,
                     75: .Xr find 1 ,
                     76: .Xr locate 1 ,
1.1       millert    77: .Xr which 1 ,
                     78: .Xr sysctl 8
1.7     ! aaron      79: .Sh COMPATIBILITY
        !            80: The historic flags and arguments for the
        !            81: .Nm
        !            82: utility are no longer available in this version.
1.1       millert    83: .Sh HISTORY
                     84: The
1.7     ! aaron      85: .Nm
1.2       mickey     86: command appeared in
                     87: .Bx 3.0 .