docs: generic whereis.1 clean up

Align with howto-man-page.txt, and more importantly remove out dated 'SEE
ALSO' and 'BUGS' sections.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>

diff --git a/misc-utils/whereis.1 b/misc-utils/whereis.1
index 4ce7a0777ba67c3f054f8c73a3b5029be5007e9c..fde0dd779a4370c89ff628e0884d436d56842170 100644 (file)
--- a/misc-utils/whereis.1
+++ b/misc-utils/whereis.1
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ whereis \- locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B whereis
 locates the binary, source and manual files for the specified command names.
-The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname components
-and any (single) trailing extension of the form
+The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname components and any
+(single) trailing extension of the form
 .BI . ext
 (for example:
 .BR .c )
@@ -51,25 +51,26 @@ Prefixes of
 .B s.
 resulting from use of source code control are also dealt with.
 .B whereis
-then attempts to locate the desired program in
-the standard Linux places, and in the places specified by
-.BR $PATH .
-
+then attempts to locate the desired program in the standard Linux places, and
+in the places specified by
+.B $PATH
+and
+.BR $MANPATH .
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
-.IP "\fB\-b\fP"
+.IP \fB\-b\fP
 Search only for binaries.
-.IP "\fB\-m\fP"
+.IP \fB\-m\fP
 Search only for manuals.
-.IP "\fB\-s\fP"
+.IP \fB\-s\fP
 Search only for sources.
-.IP "\fB\-u\fP"
-Only show the command names that have unusual entries.  A command
-is said to be unusual if it does
-not have just one entry of each explicitly requested type.  Thus
-.RB ` "whereis\ \ \-m\ \ \-u\ \ *" '
-asks for those files in the current
-directory which have no documentation file, or more than one.
+.IP \fB\-u\fP
+Only show the command names that have unusual entries.  A command is said to be
+unusual if it does not have just one entry of each explicitly requested type.
+Thus
+.RB ' "whereis \-m \-u *" '
+asks for those files in the current directory which have no documentation file,
+or more than one.
 .IP "\fB\-B \fIlist\fP"
 Limit the places where
 .B whereis
@@ -99,16 +100,16 @@ is using.  When non of
 .BR \-M ,
 or
 .BR \-S
-is specified the option will out hard coded paths that the command was
-able to find on system.
+is specified the option will out hard coded paths that the command was able to
+find on system.
 .SH EXAMPLE
 To find all files in
-.B /usr/bin
+.B /usr/\:bin
 which are not documented
 in
-.B /usr/man/man1
+.B /usr/\:man/\:man1
 or have no source in
-.BR /usr/src :
+.BR /usr/\:src :
 .IP
 .B $ cd /usr/bin
 .br
@@ -131,21 +132,9 @@ and
 .BR \-S
 are display with
 .BR \-l .
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR chdir (2)
-.SH BUGS
-Since
-.B whereis
-uses
-.BR chdir (2)
-to run faster, pathnames given with the
-.BR \-B ,
-.BR \-M ,
-or
-.BR \-S
-options must be full; that is, they must begin with a
-.RB ` / '.
 .PP
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 The whereis command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
-ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
+.UR ftp://\:ftp.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
+Linux Kernel Archive
+.UE .