whereis
—
locate programs
whereis |
[-p ] program
[program ...] |
The whereis
utility checks the standard binary
directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it
finds.
The default path searched is the string returned by the
sysctl(8) utility for the
“user.cs_path” string. If the [-p
]
option is specified, then the value of the environment variable
PATH
is used instead.
The whereis
utility exits 0 on success, 1 on general
error, 2 if only some programs were located and 3 if none were.
The historic flags and arguments for the whereis
utility
are no longer available in this version.
The whereis
command appeared in
3.0BSD.