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SCCS-vsn: usr.bin/whereis/whereis.1 5.1

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+.\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff%
+.\"
+.\"    @(#)whereis.1   5.1 (Berkeley) %G%
+.\"
+.Dd 
+.Dt WHEREIS 1
+.Os BSD 3
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm whereis
+.Nd locate programs
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm whereis
+.Op Ar program ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm whereis
+utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs,
+printing out the paths of any it finds.
+.Pp
+The path searched is the string returned by the
+.Xr sysctl 8
+utility for the
+.Dq user.cs_path
+string.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr sysctl 8 ,
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+The historic flags and arguments for the
+.Nm whereis
+utility are no longer  available in the version.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm whereis
+command appeared in 3.0BSD.