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From: Morgan Davis <root@io.cts.com>
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Subject: Re: whereis
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In-Reply-To: <199509100705.JAA20049@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 10, 95 09:05:04 am
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J Wunsch writes:
> 
> As Morgan Davis wrote:
> > 
> > I've often wondered why the 'whereis' command doesn't use your $PATH
> > in addition to the default path it searches.  Is there some compelling
> > reason for not doing this?
> 
> What you're requesting is covered by "which -a".

It sure is!  Thanks a bunch.  Works perfectly.

> "whereis" has been crippled beyond recognition in 4.4BSD.  It has to
> be rewritten, the current functionality is absolutely useless.  Either
> Wolfram Schneider (but with low priority for this) or me will revamp
> it probably in Perl.

Yup.  You're talking about the original whereis, the one that can find
man pages, too, right?