WHEREIS(1) OpenBSD Reference Manual WHEREIS(1)NAMEwhereis - locate programs
SYNOPSISwhereis [-a] name ...
DESCRIPTION
The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the
specified name, printing out the paths of any it finds that are
executable by the user.
The path searched is the string returned by the sysctl(8) utility for the
``user.cs_path'' string.
If the -a flag is given, whereis will return a list of all matches
instead of just the first match.
EXIT STATUS
The whereis utility exits with one of the following values:
0 All names were successfully resolved.
1 Some names were resolved but not all.
2 No names were resolved.
SEE ALSOapropos(1), find(1), locate(1), which(1), sysctl(8)STANDARDS
The historic flags and arguments for the whereis utility are no longer
available in this version.
HISTORY
The whereis command appeared in 3.0BSD.
OpenBSD 4.9 September 29, 2010 OpenBSD 4.9