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