Why does whereis not show my scripts' locations?

[Dotan Cohen]

Why isn't the "whereis" command not showing my scripts' locations?
Here it can be seen that ~/.bin is in my path, and that the script
"ooc" is in there. Launching "ooc" works fine from Krunner. So why
doesn't the "whereis" command show it?


dotancohen at dcl:~$ echo $PATH
/home/dotancohen/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
dotancohen at dcl:~$ whereis ooc
ooc:
dotancohen at dcl:~$ ls .bin | sort
backuperase
dellfand-0.9
fan_control.sh
firefoxFromThunderbird
firefox-otherprofiles
format_pendrives.sh
installDigikamSVN.sh
isotostick.sh
ooc
oow
rsa_setup.sh
winetricks.sh
dotancohen at dcl:~$

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