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Today, I will talk to you about the use of whereis commands in the Linux system, which may not be well understood by many people. in order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following contents for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

Whereis command is also a command for file search in Linux system, and its main function is to search the location of the command and the location of the help document.

Whereis command features:

1) the "whereis" command can only find system commands, not ordinary files. 2) the "whereis" command is the same as the "locate" command to find data from the database, so the query speed is fast. one hundred and twenty one。 Command format:

Whereis [option] command name 12. Common options:

"whereis-b" only looks for the location of the executable file. "whereis-m" only finds the location of the help document. (M means man) "whereis-s" looks for the location of the source code file. (s means source) 1233. Common examples:

1) View the location of the command "pwd" and the location of the help document 1

2) View only the location 1 of the command "pwd"

3) View only the location of the help document for the command "pwd" 1

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