bsd man page for whereis

WHEREIS(1)						      General Commands Manual							WHEREIS(1)

NAME
       whereis - locate programs

SYNOPSIS
       whereis program ...

DESCRIPTION
       The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it finds.

       The path searched is the string returned by the sysctl(8) utility for the ``user.cs_path'' string.

SEE ALSO
       sysctl(8),

COMPATIBILITY
       The historic flags and arguments for the whereis utility are no longer available in this version.

HISTORY
       The whereis command appeared in 3.0BSD.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					 November 27, 1996							WHEREIS(1)