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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: whereis whereis?
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J. Wunsch writes:

>So whereis(1) now finally degraded to which(1) (sort of).  

$ whereis ls
/bin/ls
$ echo $?
255
$ whereis /bin/ls |wc -l
	0

It is buggy and not a which(1).

Wolfram