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+.\" @(#)whereis.1 from UCB 4.2
+.TH WHEREIS 1 "October 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+whereis \- locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B whereis
+[options]
+.RB [ \-BMS
+.IR directory "... " \fB\-f\fR ]
+.IR name ...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B whereis
+locates the binary, source and manual files for the specified command names.
+The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname components and any
+(single) trailing extension of the form
+.BI . ext
+(for example:
+.BR .c )
+Prefixes of
+.B s.
+resulting from use of source code control are also dealt with.
+.B whereis
+then attempts to locate the desired program in the standard Linux places, and
+in the places specified by
+.B $PATH
+and
+.BR $MANPATH .
+.sp
+The search restrictions (options \fB\-b\fP, \fB\-m\fP and \fB\-s\fP)
+are cumulative and apply to the subsequent \fIname\fP patterns on
+the command line. Any new search restriction resets the search mask.
+For example,
+.RS
+.sp
+.B "whereis -bm ls tr -m gcc"
+.sp
+.RE
+searches for "ls" and "tr" binaries and man pages, and for "gcc" man pages only.
+.sp
+The options \fB\-B\fP, \fB\-M\fP and \fB\-S\fP reset search paths for the
+subsequent \fIname\fP patterns. For example,
+.RS
+.sp
+.B "whereis -m ls -M /usr/share/man/man1 -f cal"
+.sp
+.RE
+searches for "ls" man pages in all default paths, but for "cal" in
+the /usr/share/man/man1 directory only.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.IP \fB\-b\fP
+Search for binaries.
+.IP \fB\-m\fP
+Search for manuals.
+.IP \fB\-s\fP
+Search for sources.
+.IP \fB\-u\fP
+Only show the command names that have unusual entries. A command is said to be
+unusual if it does not have just one entry of each explicitly requested type.
+Thus
+.RB ' "whereis \-m \-u *" '
+asks for those files in the current directory which have no documentation file,
+or more than one.
+.IP "\fB\-B \fIlist\fP"
+Limit the places where
+.B whereis
+searches for binaries, by a whitespace-separated list of directories.
+.IP "\fB\-M \fIlist\fP"
+Limit the places where
+.B whereis
+searches for manuals and documentation in Info format, by a
+whitespace-separated list of directories.
+.IP "\fB\-S \fIlist\fP"
+Limit the places where
+.B whereis
+searches for sources, by a whitespace-separated list of directories.
+.IP "\fB\-f\fP"
+Terminates the directory list and signals the start of filenames. It
+.I must
+be used when any of the
+.BR \-B ,
+.BR \-M ,
+or
+.B \-S
+options is used.
+.IP "\fB\-l"
+Output the list of effective lookup paths that
+.B whereis
+is using. When none of
+.BR \-B ,
+.BR \-M ,
+or
+.B \-S
+is specified, the option will output the hard-coded paths
+that the command was able to find on the system.
+.TP
+\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
+Display help text and exit.
+.TP
+\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
+Display version information and exit.
+.SH EXAMPLE
+To find all files in
+.I /usr/\:bin
+which are not documented
+in
+.I /usr/\:man/\:man1
+or have no source in
+.IR /usr/\:src :
+.IP
+.B cd /usr/bin
+.br
+.B whereis \-u \-ms \-M /usr/man/man1 \-S /usr/src \-f *
+.SH "FILE SEARCH PATHS"
+By default
+.B whereis
+tries to find files from hard-coded paths, which are defined with glob
+patterns. The command attempts to use the contents of
+.B $PATH
+and
+.B $MANPATH
+environment variables as default search path. The easiest way to know
+what paths are in use is to add the
+.B \-l
+listing option. Effects of the
+.BR \-B ,
+.BR \-M ,
+and
+.B \-S
+are displayed with
+.BR \-l .
+.PP
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+.IP WHEREIS_DEBUG=all
+enables debug output.
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+The whereis command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+.UR https://\:www.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
+Linux Kernel Archive
+.UE .