.TH WHEREIS UCB 2/24/79 UCB
whereis \- locate source/binary/manual for program
locates source/binary and manuals sections for specified files.
The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname components
and any (single) trailing extension of the form `.ext', e.g. `.c'.
Prefixes of `s.' resulting from use of source code control are also
then attempts to locate the desired program in a list of standard places.
searches only for binaries, sources or manual sections
flag may be used to search for unusual entries.
A file is said to be unusual if it does not have one entry of
Thus `whereis -m -u *' asks for those files in the current
directory which have no documentation.
flags may be used to change the places where
searches to the specified directories only.
file flags may be used to terminate the last such directory list
and signal the start of file names.
The following finds all the files in /usr/ucb which are not documented
in /usr/man/mann with source in /usr/ucb/src/ucb:
whereis -u -M /usr/man/mann -S /usr/ucb/src/ucb -f *
/bin, /etc, /usr/{bin,ucb}
This program makes it too easy to find out what needs to be done.
to run faster, pathnames given with the
flags should start at the root or they will not work.