Those switches instruct whereis on where it should search for binaries
or man pages. You asked it to look only in a directory where the file
is NOT and thus it does not report finding the file. Try:
whereis -B /usr/bin -f apt-get
** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New =>
** Tags added: trusty
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Title:
whereis command output for -M and -B options is inversed
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Title:
whereis command output for -M and -B options is inversed
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