Whereis
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whereis is a Unix
command used to locate some special files of a Unix
command like the binary, source and manual page files. Unix' which
is usually preferred to locate binary file, because it's POSIX and it can identify shell aliases.
Here's an example usage from the man page:
Find all files in /usr/bin which are not documented in /usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src:
example% cd /usr/bin
example% whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src -f *
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
command used to locate some special files of a Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
command like the binary, source and manual page files. Unix' which
Which (Unix)
which is a Unix command used to identify the location of executables.The command takes one or more arguments; for each of these arguments, it prints to stdout the full path of the executable that would have been executed if this argument had been entered into the shell. It does this by searching...
is usually preferred to locate binary file, because it's POSIX and it can identify shell aliases.
Here's an example usage from the man page:
Find all files in /usr/bin which are not documented in /usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src:
example% cd /usr/bin
example% whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src -f *