1.\" Copyright (c) 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Copyright 2002 Joerg Wunsch 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)whereis.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93 35.\" 36.\" $FreeBSD$ 37.\" 38.Dd August 22, 2002 39.Dt WHEREIS 1 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm whereis 43.Nd locate programs 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm 46.Op Fl abmqsux 47.Op Fl BMS Ar dir ... Fl f 48.Ar program ... 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50The 51.Nm 52utility checks the standard binary, manual page, and source 53directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any 54it finds. 55The supplied program names are first stripped of leading 56path name components, any single trailing extension added by 57.Xr gzip 1 , 58.Xr compress 1 , 59or 60.Xr bzip2 1 , 61and the leading 62.Ql s.\& 63or trailing 64.Ql ,v 65from a source code control system. 66.Pp 67The default path searched is the string returned by the 68.Xr sysctl 8 69utility for the 70.Dq user.cs_path 71string, with 72.Pa /usr/libexec , 73.Pa /usr/games 74and the current user's 75.Ev $PATH 76appended. 77Manual pages are searched by default along the 78.Ev $MANPATH . 79Program sources are located in a list of known standard places, 80including all the subdirectories of 81.Pa /usr/src 82and 83.Pa /usr/ports . 84.Pp 85The following options are available: 86.Bl -tag -width indent 87.It Fl B 88Specify directories to search for binaries. 89Requires the 90.Fl f 91option. 92.It Fl M 93Specify directories to search for manual pages. 94Requires the 95.Fl f 96option. 97.It Fl S 98Specify directories to search for program sources. 99Requires the 100.Fl f 101option. 102.It Fl a 103Report all matches instead of only the first of each requested type. 104.It Fl b 105Search for binaries. 106.It Fl f 107Delimits the list of directories after the 108.Fl B , 109.Fl M , 110or 111.Fl S 112options, and indicates the beginning of the 113.Ar program 114list. 115.It Fl m 116Search for manual pages. 117.It Fl q 118.Pq Dq quiet . 119Suppress the output of the utility name in front of the normal 120output line. 121This can become handy for use in a backquote substitution of a 122shell command line, see 123.Sx EXAMPLES . 124.It Fl s 125Search for source directories. 126.It Fl u 127Search for 128.Dq unusual 129entries. 130A file is said to be unusual if it does not have at least 131one entry of each requested type. 132Only the name of the unusual entry is printed. 133.It Fl x 134Do not use 135.Dq expensive 136tools when searching for source directories. 137Normally, after unsuccessfully searching all the first-level 138subdirectories of the source directory list, 139.Nm 140will ask 141.Xr locate 1 142to find the entry on its behalf. 143Since this can take much longer, it can be turned off with 144.Fl x . 145.El 146.Sh EXAMPLES 147The following finds all utilities under 148.Pa /usr/bin 149that do not have documentation: 150.Pp 151.Dl whereis -m -u /usr/bin/* 152.Pp 153Change to the source code directory of 154.Xr ls 1 : 155.Pp 156.Dl cd `whereis -sq ls` 157.Sh SEE ALSO 158.Xr find 1 , 159.Xr locate 1 , 160.Xr man 1 , 161.Xr which 1 , 162.Xr sysctl 8 163.Sh HISTORY 164The 165.Nm 166utility appeared in 167.Bx 3.0 . 168This version re-implements the historical 169functionality that was lost in 170.Bx 4.4 . 171.Sh AUTHORS 172This implementation of the 173.Nm 174command was written by 175.An J\(:org Wunsch . 176.Sh BUGS 177This re-implementation of the 178.Nm 179utility is not bug-for-bug compatible with historical versions. 180It is believed to be compatible with the version that was shipping with 181.Fx 2.2 182through 183.Fx 4.5 184though. 185.Pp 186The 187.Nm 188utility can report some unrelated source entries when the 189.Fl a 190option is specified. 191