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diff --git a/misc-utils/whereis.1 b/misc-utils/whereis.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4d55ac6d --- /dev/null +++ b/misc-utils/whereis.1 @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)whereis.1 from UCB 4.2 +.TH WHEREIS 1 "8 May 1994" +.SH NAME +whereis \- locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B whereis +[ +.B \-bmsu +] [ +.B \-BMS +.IR directory .\|.\|. +.B \-f +] +\fIfilename\fP\| +\&.\|.\|. +.IX "whereis command" "" "\fLwhereis\fP \(em find program" +.IX find "program \(em \fLwhereis\fP" +.IX "locate program" "" "locate program \(em \fLwhereis\fP" +.IX command locate "" "locate \(em \fLwhereis\fP" +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B whereis +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 +.BI . ext, +for example, +.BR .c . +Prefixes of +.B s. +resulting from use of source code control are also dealt with. +.B whereis +then attempts to locate the desired program in +a list of standard Linux places: +.IP +.nf +.ft B +/bin +/usr/bin +/etc +/usr/etc +/sbin +/usr/sbin +/usr/games +/usr/games/bin +/usr/emacs/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.22/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.23/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.24/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.25/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.26/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.27/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.28/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.29/etc +/usr/lib/emacs/19.30/etc +/usr/TeX/bin +/usr/tex/bin +/usr/interviews/bin/LINUX +/usr/bin/X11 +/usr/X11/bin +/usr/X11R5/bin +/usr/X11R6/bin +/usr/X386/bin +/usr/local/bin +/usr/local/etc +/usr/local/sbin +/usr/local/games +/usr/local/games/bin +/usr/local/emacs/etc +/usr/local/TeX/bin +/usr/local/tex/bin +/usr/local/bin/X11 + +/usr/contrib", +/usr/hosts", +/usr/include", + +/usr/g++-include", +.ft R +.fi +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +\fB\-b +Search only for binaries. +.TP +.B \-m +Search only for manual sections. +.TP +.B \-s +Search only for sources. +.TP +.B \-u +Search for unusual entries. A file is said to be unusual if it does +not have one entry of each requested type. +Thus +.RB ` "whereis\ \ \-m\ \ \-u\ \ *" ' +asks for those files in the current +directory which have no documentation. +.TP +.B \-B +Change or otherwise limit the places where +.B whereis +searches for binaries. +.TP +.B \-M +Change or otherwise limit the places where +.B whereis +searches for +manual sections. +.TP +.B \-S +Change or otherwise limit the places where +.B whereis +searches for sources. +.TP +.B \-f +Terminate the last directory list and signals the start of file names, +and +.I must +be used when any of the +.BR \-B , +.BR \-M , +or +.B \-S +options are used. +.SH EXAMPLE +Find all files in +.B /usr/bin +which are not documented +in +.B /usr/man/man1 +with source in +.BR /usr/src : +.IP +.nf +.ft B +example% cd /usr/bin +example% whereis \-u \-M /usr/man/man1 \-S /usr/src \-f * +.fi +.ft R +.SH FILES +.PD 0 +.TP 20 +.B /{bin,sbin,etc} +.TP +.B /usr/{lib,bin,old,new,local,games,include,etc,src,man,sbin, +.B X386,TeX,g++-include} +.TP +.B /usr/local/{X386,TeX,X11,include,lib,man,etc,bin,games, +.B emacs} +.TP +.B +.PD +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR chdir (2V) +.SH BUGS +Since +.B whereis +uses +.BR chdir (2V) +to run faster, pathnames given with the +.BR \-M , +.BR \-S , +or +.B \-B +must be full; that is, they must begin with a +.RB ` / '. |