April 3, 2003 WHEREIS 1

### NAME

whereis - locate programs

### SYNOPSIS

whereis [-p] program [program ...]

### DESCRIPTION

The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it finds.

The default path searched is the string returned by the sysctl(8) utility for the ``user.cs_path'' string. If the [-p] option is specified, then the value of the environment variable ```PATH` is used instead.

### EXIT STATUS

The whereis utility exits 0 on success, 1 on general error, 2 if only some programs were located and 3 if none were.

### SEE ALSO

whatis(1), which(1), sysctl(8)

### COMPATIBILITY

The historic flags and arguments for the whereis utility are no longer available in this version.

### HISTORY

The whereis command appeared in 3.0BSD.