whereis -[bmsu] 文档名或目录名的所在路径
-l
:可以列出where会去查询的几个主要目录
-b : 只找出二进制格式的文档
-m : 只找出说明文档manual路径下的文档
-s : 只找出source来源档案
-u : 搜寻不在上述三个项目当中的其他特殊文档
下面来看看几个例子:
Example 1:查看跟ifconfig有关的文档
[root@localhost ~]# whereis ifconfig
ifconfig: /usr/sbin/ifconfig /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
Example 2:查看ls的帮助文档:
[root@localhost ~]# whereis -m ls
ls: /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1p/ls.1p.gz
Example 3:查看whereis会去查询的目录:
[root@localhost ~]# whereis -l
bin: /usr/bin
bin: /usr/sbin
bin: /usr/lib
bin: /usr/lib64
bin: /etc
bin: /usr/etc
bin: /usr/games
bin: /usr/local/bin
bin: /usr/local/sbin
bin: /usr/local/etc
bin: /usr/local/lib
bin: /usr/local/games
bin: /usr/include
bin: /usr/local
bin: /usr/libexec
bin: /usr/share
man: /usr/share/man/man0p
man: /usr/share/man/man1
man: /usr/share/man/man1p
man: /usr/share/man/man1x
man: /usr/share/man/man2
man: /usr/share/man/man2x
man: /usr/share/man/man3
man: /usr/share/man/man3p
man: /usr/share/man/man3x
man: /usr/share/man/man4
man: /usr/share/man/man4x
man: /usr/share/man/man5
man: /usr/share/man/man5x
man: /usr/share/man/man6
man: /usr/share/man/man6x
man: /usr/share/man/man7
man: /usr/share/man/man7x
man: /usr/share/man/man8
man: /usr/share/man/man8x
man: /usr/share/man/man9
man: /usr/share/man/man9x
man: /usr/share/man/mann
man: /usr/share/man/hu
man: /usr/share/man/ja
man: /usr/share/man/de
man: /usr/share/man/cs
man: /usr/share/man/da
man: /usr/share/man/fr
man: /usr/share/man/id
man: /usr/share/man/it
man: /usr/share/man/ko
man: /usr/share/man/pl
man: /usr/share/man/pt_BR
man: /usr/share/man/ru
man: /usr/share/man/sv
man: /usr/share/man/tr
man: /usr/share/man/zh_CN
man: /usr/share/man/zh_TW
man: /usr/share/man/sk
man: /usr/share/man/pt
man: /usr/share/man/es
man: /usr/share/man/uk
man: /usr/share/man/ca
man: /usr/share/man/en
man: /usr/share/man/overrides
src: /usr/src/debug
src: /usr/src/kernels
从上面的例子中可以看出当执行whereis 目录名
时列出所有跟目录名有关内容的路径;而加相关选项的的whereis 命令只列出相应的文件路径,入-m只列出manual目录下的手册文件;同时可以看出whereis命令多用于程序的命令查找