I exploit a 2023 M2 MBP working Ventura 13.7.2. To reinforce Apple’s reasonably paltry choices of CL utilities, I rely on MacPorts. Sadly, MacPorts doesn’t have a alternative/various for whereis.
In case you’ve ever used Apple’s native whereis you could have observed that it has some shortcomings; e.g.:
/usr/bin/whereis discover
discover: /usr/bin/discover /choose/native/libexec/gnubin/man/man1/discover.1.gz
First – it solely reviews on native apps. Its app searches are restricted by Apple, and apparently this can’t be over-ridden by any person.
Second – as you may see above, it has no such restrictions on trying to find manuals. On this case, it reviews on the guide location for the discover instrument which was put in from MacPorts.
Third – the native whereis discovered the manpage for discover with out good thing about the MANPATH surroundings variable – it isn’t set on my system.
Fourth – AFAIK, that leaves solely manpath (one other Apple-sourced CL utility) as a useful resource for locating the situation of manuals. Nonetheless, as I learn man manpath – it is not getting it from there both!
In order that’s my query: How does Apple’s whereis command discover the situation of system manuals? Have I mis-read man manpath? Can somebody clarify the method?
Additionally, I might have an interest to know if Apple publishes the supply information for manpath and whereis, and in that case – the place can I discover them?