Note from maintainers: Nowadays you should use https://github.com/npm/node-which
Simply get the first path to a bin on any system.
var whereis = require('whereis');
whereis('wget', function(err, path) {
console.log(path);
});
// /usr/bin/wget
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Which/Whereis easy helper, find if a program exists
The npm package whereis receives a total of 628 weekly downloads. As such, whereis popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that whereis demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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