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11-Jul-2002 |
joerg |
Complete rewrite, once again.
This is basically a ``C compilation'' of the former whereis.pl file, employing the same algorithms, and aiming at being mostly UI-compatible to the old (legally tainted) 4.3BSD whereis(1). In comparision, the 4.4BSD-Lite version is just another variant of which(1) only, where in particular the option to search for source directories is sorely missing.
While i was at it, i added two more options which i contemplated doing long since. -x will suppress the run of locate(1) to find sources that could not be found otherwise, potentially saving a lot of time (but obviously, risking to not find some sources that are well hidden in the tree). -q will omit the leading name of the query, so in particular, you can now do something like:
cd `whereis -qs ls`
I'd explicitly like to thank johan for his review which was quite a bit more than an average review, including sending me a lot of diffs.
Reviewed by: johan
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