Introduction
This repository will run the whereis command to display the path of the executable file and the path of the file to be referenced with the man command.
Commands that need to be installed
- None in paticular
Quickstart
Run the whereis command to display the path to the executable and manual.
ubuntu
Output results
date: /usr/bin/date /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gzmacos
MacPorts
Output results
date: /bin/date /usr/share/man/man1/date.1windows
WSL2
Output results
date: /usr/bin/date /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gzMSYS2 MINGW64
Output results
date: /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gzProcedure
ubuntu
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Advance confirmation
Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.
preinstall
Please install the command that shows “command not found” in the terminal using the following command.
command
Executing the following command in the terminal should output a string similar to the following:
Detail
date: /usr/bin/date /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gzmacos
Click to open details
Advance confirmation
Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.
*MacOS uses the MacPorts package manager to manage commands. If you haven’t installed it yet, please refer to the MacPorts installation instructions at the link below. Also, set an alias for the command so that you can call the command without conflicting with the existing environment. If you are using this blog for the first time, please refer to the following two articles to set up your environment.
preinstall
If the command not found appears in the terminal, install it using the following command and set an alias.
command
Executing the following command in the terminal should output a string similar to the following:
Detail
date: /bin/date /usr/share/man/man1/date.1windows
Click to open details
Advance confirmation
Enter the following command into the prompt and if command not found does not appear, it’s OK.
WSL2
MSYS2 MINGW64
*Windows has been confirmed to work with WSL2 and MSYS2 MINGW64. Please install WSL2 if possible, and if you are unable to set it up, you can run it by installing MSYS2, but there may be some commands that can only be run in WSL2. Please refer to the following article for instructions on how to install WSL2 and MSYS2.
preinstall
If the command not found appears in the prompt, please install it using the following command.
WSL2
MSYS2 MINGW64
command
By executing the following command at the prompt, you should get the following output:
WSL2
Detail
date: /usr/bin/date /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gzMSYS2 MINGW64
Detail
date: /usr/share/man/man1/date.1.gzAfterword
It seems that the search order is user.cs_path, /usr/libexec, and $PATH, but I cannot verify this because I cannot create new files in user.cs_path or /usr/libexec. If the command does not exist in user.cs_path or /usr/libexec but exists in $PATH, you can confirm that $PATH is the search target for the whereis command. For Mac, you can check the path included in user.cs_path with the following command: