whereis

You can locate a source, binary and/or a manual for a program using the
whereis command.  It will list any occurrence for the keyword you give
it:  
                 world%  whereis keyword
For example:  
                 world%  whereis tetris
                 tetris: /usr/games/tetris

Whereis locates source/binary and manuals sections for specified
files.  The supplied names are first stripped of leading pathname
components and any (single) trailing extension of the form ``.ext'',
e.g. ``.c''.  Prefixes of ``s.'' resulting from use of source code
control are also dealt with.  Whereis then attempts to locate the
desired program in a list of standard places.  If any of the -b, -s or
-m flags are given then whereis searches only for binaries, sources or
manual sections respectively (or any two thereof).  The -u flag may be
used to search for unusual entries.  A file is said to be unusual if
it does not have one entry of each requested type.  Thus ``whereis -m
-u *'' asks for those files in the current directory which have no
documentation.

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