WHEREIS(1-BSD) RISC/os Reference Manual WHEREIS(1-BSD)
NAME
whereis - locate source, binary, and or manual for program
SYNOPSIS
whereis [ -sbm ] [ -u ] [ -SBM dir ... -f ] name ...
DESCRIPTION
whereis locates source/binary and manuals sections for
specified files. The supplied names are first stripped of
leading pathname components and any (single) trailing exten-
sion of the form ``.ext'', e.g. ``.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 places. If any of the -b, -s or -m
flags are given then whereis searches only for binaries,
sources or manual sections respectively (or any two
thereof). The -u flag may be used to 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.
Finally, the -B -M and -S flags may be used to change or
otherwise limit the places where whereis searches. The -f
file flags is used to terminate the last such directory list
and signal the start of file names.
EXAMPLE
The following finds all the files in /usr/bin which are not
documented in /usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src/cmd:
cd /usr/ucb
whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src/cmd -f *
FILES
/usr/src/*
/usr/{doc,man}/*
/lib, /etc, /usr/{lib,bin,ucb,old,new,local}
BUGS
Since the program uses chdir(2) to run faster, pathnames
given with the -M -S and -B must be full; i.e. they must
begin with a ``/''.
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