whereis(1) [ultrix man page]
whereis(1) General Commands Manual whereis(1) Name whereis - locate source, binary, and or manual for program Syntax whereis [-sbm] [-u] [-SBM dir... -f] name... Description The command locates source/binary and manuals sections for specified files. The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname com- ponents and any (single) trailing extension of the form ``.ext'', for example,``.c''. Prefixes of ``s.'' resulting from use of source code control are also dealt with. The command then attempts to locate the desired program in a list of standard places. Options -S dir Search for source files in specified directory. -B dir Search for binary files in given directory. -M dir Search for manual section files in given directory. -b Searches only for binary files. -f Terminates last directory list created from use of -S, -B or -M flags and signals the start of file names. -m Searches only for manual section files. -s Searches only for source files. -u Searches for files that do not have one of binary, source or manual section files. 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. Examples The following finds all the files in which are not documented in with source in cd /usr/ucb whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src/cmd -f * Restrictions Since the program uses to run faster, pathnames given with the -M -S and -B must be full. That is, they must begin with a ``/''. Files /usr/src/* /usr/{doc,man}/* /lib, /etc, /usr/{lib,bin,ucb,old,new,local} whereis(1)
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WHEREIS(1) User Commands WHEREIS(1) NAME
whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command SYNOPSIS
whereis [-bmsu] [-BMS directory... -f] filename... DESCRIPTION
whereis locates source/binary and manuals sections for specified files. The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname compo- nents and any (single) trailing extension of the form .ext, for example, .c. Prefixes of s. resulting from use of source code control are also dealt with. whereis then attempts to locate the desired program in a list of standard Linux places. OPTIONS
-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. EXAMPLE
Find all files in /usr/bin which are not documented in /usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src: example% cd /usr/bin example% whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src -f * FILES
/{bin,sbin,etc} /usr/{lib,bin,old,new,local,games,include,etc,src,man,sbin, X386,TeX,g++-include} /usr/local/{X386,TeX,X11,include,lib,man,etc,bin,games,emacs} SEE ALSO
chdir(2V) BUGS
Since whereis uses chdir(2V) to run faster, pathnames given with the -M, -S, or -B must be full; that is, they must begin with a `/'. whereis has a hard-coded path, so may not always find what you're looking for. AVAILABILITY
The whereis command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux July 2009 WHEREIS(1)