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37.Dd April 27, 1995
38.Dt WHEREIS 1
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm whereis
42.Nd locate programs
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm
45.Ar program ...
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs,
50printing out the paths of any it finds.
51.Pp
52The default path searched is the string returned by the
53.Xr sysctl 8
54utility for the
55.Dq user.cs_path
56string.
57.Sh SEE ALSO
58.Xr which 1 ,
59.Xr sysctl 8
60.Sh COMPATIBILITY
61The historic flags and arguments for the
62.Nm
63utility are no longer available in this version.
64.Sh HISTORY
65The
66.Nm
67command appeared in
68.Bx 3.0 .
69