1 .\" $OpenBSD: whereis.1,v 1.18 2013/04/15 16:22:51 jmc Exp $
2 .\" $NetBSD: whereis.1,v 1.4 1995/08/31 21:54:51 jtc Exp $
5 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
7 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
8 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
10 .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
11 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
12 .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
13 .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
14 .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
15 .\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
16 .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
17 .\" without specific prior written permission.
19 .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
20 .\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
21 .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
22 .\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
23 .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
24 .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
25 .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
26 .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
27 .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
28 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
31 .\" @(#)whereis.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/27/95
33 .Dd $Mdocdate: April 15 2013 $
46 utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified
48 printing out the paths of any it finds that are executable by the
52 .\" The path below should be the expansion of _PATH_STDPATH from <paths.h>
53 .D1 /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
59 will return a list of all matches instead of just the first match.
63 utility exits with one of the following values:
65 .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact
67 All names were successfully resolved.
69 Some names were resolved but not all.
71 No names were resolved.
81 command first appeared in
83 but the original version was legally tainted
84 and was not included as part of the
86 release, such that most of the original functionality was lost.
90 option first appeared in
93 The original version was written by