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About whereis
Locate a binary, source, and manual page files for
a command.
Syntax
whereis [ -bmsu ] [ -BMS directory... -f ] filename ...
| -b |
Search only for binaries. |
| -m |
Search only for manual sections. |
| -s |
Search only for sources. |
| -u |
Search for unusual entries. A file is said to be
unusual if it does not have one entry of each requested type. Thus `whereis -m -u *' asks for
those files in the current directory which have no documentation. |
| -B |
Change or otherwise limit the places where whereis
searches for binaries. |
| -M |
Change or otherwise limit the places where whereis
searches for manual sections. |
| -S |
Change or otherwise limit the places where whereis
searches for sources. |
| -f |
Terminate the last directory list and signals the
start of file names, and must be used when any of the -B, -M, or -S options are used. |
Examples
whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src -f *
In the above example the whereis command would
search for any manual for any file in the current directory.
whereis perl
Locate the directories for where Perl is stored.
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find
which
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