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The default path searched is the string returned by the sysctl(8) utility for the "user.cs_path" string, with /usr/libexec and the current user's $PATH appended. Manual pages are searched by default along the $MANPATH. Program sources are located in a list of known standard places, including all the subdirectories of /usr/src and /usr/ports.
The following options are available:
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Specify directories to search for binaries.
Requires the
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Specify directories to search for manual pages.
Requires the
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Specify directories to search for program sources.
Requires the
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Report all matches instead of only the first of each requested type. | |
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Search for binaries. | |
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Delimits the list of directories after the
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Search for manual pages. | |
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("quiet"). Suppress the output of the utility name in front of the normal output line. This can become handy for use in a backquote substitution of a shell command line, see EXAMPLES. | |
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Search for source directories. | |
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Search for "unusual" entries. A file is said to be unusual if it does not have at least one entry of each requested type. Only the name of the unusual entry is printed. | |
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Do not use
"expensive"
tools when searching for source directories.
Normally, after unsuccessfully searching all the first-level
subdirectories of the source directory list,
whereis
will ask
locate(1)
to find the entry on its behalf.
Since this can take much longer, it can be turned off with
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whereis -m -u /usr/bin/*
Change to the source code directory of ls(1):
cd `whereis -sq ls`
The
whereis
utility can report some unrelated source entries when the
WHEREIS (1) | August 22, 2002 |
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