Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell

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Name

whereis

Synopsis

whereis files

Checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it finds.

Compatibility

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

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