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From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] whereis command
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 16:27:57 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ffe431b-6e0a-4bf6-b991-e78d4ac2dbf2@aueb.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYLNTwd8OG9LuLSS6fqq+gJL81sSOGEg26ncZk6kfCcTRg@mail.gmail.com>

According to the index of documented Unix facilities [1] it first appeared in 2 BSD [2].

[1] https://dspinellis.github.io/unix-history-man/man1.html
[2] https://dspinellis.github.io/manview/?src=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fdspinellis%2Funix-history-repo%2FBSD-2%2Fman%2Fwhereis.u&name=BSD%202%3A%20whereis(1)&link=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdspinellis%2Funix-history-repo%2Fblob%2FBSD-2%2Fman%2Fwhereis.u

24 Apr 2022 18:29:14 ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:

> can someone point me at the earliest version of whereis? I first saw
> it in 4.1, but maybe it came sooner. Also, if you've got a link to man
> pages, thanks in advance.
> 
> I'm trying but failing to find it. My daughter says I suck at web
> search, which, given where I work, is a bid sad :-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-24 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-24 15:24 ron minnich
2022-04-24 15:48 ` arnold
2022-04-24 15:59   ` ron minnich
2022-04-24 16:31     ` David Barto
2022-04-24 18:38       ` John P. Linderman
2022-04-24 16:27 ` Diomidis Spinellis [this message]
2022-04-24 16:48 ` Clem Cole
2022-04-24 16:54   ` Clem Cole
2022-04-24 17:39     ` ron minnich

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