From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 01:57:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA18490 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 01:57:47 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA18480 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 01:57:38 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25392; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:57:35 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA09028 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:57:34 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA27131 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:21:33 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508200821.KAA27131@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: whereis whereis? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 10:21:31 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 874 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Can anybody comment on this? WHEREIS(1) UNIX Reference Manual WHEREIS(1) NAME whereis - locate programs ... COMPATIBILITY The historic flags and arguments for the whereis utility are no longer available in this version. ... So whereis(1) now finally degraded to which(1) (sort of). I always appreciated the ability of those ``historic flags and arguments'' to locate the source and/or man page: j@uriah 378% whereis ls /bin/ls j@uriah 379% head -3 /cd/RELNOTES.TXT RELEASE NOTES FreeBSD Release 1.1 j@uriah 380% /cd/filesys/usr/bin/whereis ls ls: /usr/src/bin/ls /bin/ls -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)