How do i find the locations of commands using whereis?
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Link to man page for whereis: https://www.lightnetics.com/post/6104
Note: whereis work off various environment paths, set in your shell, if the paths are not set to include a certain directory path whereis will not find the entry, however you can specifically set a path on the command line when running wher
eisUse the whereis command, by defaut it show you all source, binary, and
man pages$ whereis cat cat: /bin/cat /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz
If you just wanted binary for instance:
$ whereis -b cat cat: /bin/cat
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