WHEREIS(1) | General Commands Manual | WHEREIS(1) |
whereis
— locate
programs
whereis |
[-a ] name ... |
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:
If the -a
flag is given,
whereis
will return a list of all matches instead of
just the first match.
The whereis
utility exits with one of the
following values:
The whereis
command first appeared in
2BSD, but the original version was legally tainted
and was not included as part of the 4.4BSD release,
such that most of the original functionality was lost.
The -a
option first appeared in
OpenBSD 2.3.
The original version was written by Bill Joy.
July 11, 2019 | OpenBSD-7.0 |