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| 4 | WHEREIS(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual WHEREIS(1) | |
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| 8 | N\bNA\bAM\bME\bE | |
| 9 | whereis - locate source, binary, and or manual for program | |
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| 11 | S\bSY\bYN\bNO\bOP\bPS\bSI\bIS\bS | |
| 12 | w\bwh\bhe\ber\bre\bei\bis\bs [ -\b-s\bsb\bbm\bm ] [ -\b-u\bu ] [ -\b-S\bSB\bBM\bM dir ... -\b-f\bf ] name ... | |
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| 14 | D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN | |
| 15 | _\bW_\bh_\be_\br_\be_\bi_\bs locates source/binary and manuals sections for | |
| 16 | specified files. The supplied names are first stripped of | |
| 17 | leading pathname components and any (single) trailing exten- | |
| 18 | sion of the form ``.ext'', e.g. ``.c''. Prefixes of ``s.'' | |
| 19 | resulting from use of source code control are also dealt | |
| 20 | with. _\bW_\bh_\be_\br_\be_\bi_\bs then attempts to locate the desired program | |
| 21 | in a list of standard places. If any of the -\b-b\bb,\b, -\b-s\bs or -\b-m\bm | |
| 22 | flags are given then _\bw_\bh_\be_\br_\be_\bi_\bs searches only for binaries, | |
| 23 | sources or manual sections respectively (or any two | |
| 24 | thereof). The -\b-u\bu flag may be used to search for unusual | |
| 25 | entries. A file is said to be unusual if it does not have | |
| 26 | one entry of each requested type. Thus ``whereis -m -u *'' | |
| 27 | asks for those files in the current directory which have no | |
| 28 | documentation. | |
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| 30 | Finally, the -\b-B\bB -\b-M\bM and -\b-S\bS flags may be used to change or | |
| 31 | otherwise limit the places where _\bw_\bh_\be_\br_\be_\bi_\bs searches. The -\b-f\bf | |
| 32 | file flags is used to terminate the last such directory list | |
| 33 | and signal the start of file names. | |
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| 35 | E\bEX\bXA\bAM\bMP\bPL\bLE\bE | |
| 36 | The following finds all the files in /usr/bin which are not | |
| 37 | documented in /usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src/cmd: | |
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| 39 | cd /usr/ucb | |
| 40 | whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src/cmd -f * | |
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| 42 | F\bFI\bIL\bLE\bES\bS | |
| 43 | /usr/src/* | |
| 44 | /usr/{doc,man}/* | |
| 45 | /lib, /etc, /usr/{lib,bin,ucb,old,new,local} | |
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| 47 | B\bBU\bUG\bGS\bS | |
| 48 | Since the program uses _\bc_\bh_\bd_\bi_\br(2) to run faster, pathnames | |
| 49 | given with the -\b-M\bM -\b-S\bS and -\b-B\bB must be full; i.e. they must | |
| 50 | begin with a ``/''. | |
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| 63 | Printed 7/9/88 May 7, 1986 1 | |
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