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NAME

wtf - look up terms

SYNOPSIS

wtf [-f dbfile] [-o] [is] term ...

DESCRIPTION

The wtf utility looks up the meaning of one or more term operands
specified on the command line.

term will first be searched for as an acronym in the acronym databases,
which are expected to be in the format "acronym[tab]meaning". If no
match has been found, wtf will check to see if the term is known by
whatis(1), pkg_info(1), or, when called from within a pkgsrc package
directory, pkgsrc's internal help facility, "make help topic=XXX".

The optional is operand will be ignored, allowing the fairly natural
"wtf is WTF" usage.

The following option is available:

-f dbfile
Overrides the default list of acronym databases, bypassing the
value of the ACRONYMDB variable. Unlike this variable the -f
option only accepts one file name as an argument, but it may be
given multiple times to specify more than one file to use.

-o Include acronyms that could be considered offensive to some.
Please consult fortune(6) for more information about the -o flag.

ENVIRONMENT

ACRONYMDB The default list of acronym databases may be overridden by
setting the environment variable ACRONYMDB to the name of
one or more space-separated file names of acronym databases.

FILES

/usr/share/wtf/acronyms default acronym database.
/usr/share/wtf/acronyms-o default offensive acronym database.
/usr/share/wtf/acronyms.comp default computer-related acronym
database.

SEE ALSO

make(1), pkg_info(1), whatis(1), fortune(6)

HISTORY

wtf first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. Initially it only translated
acronyms; functionality to look up the meaning of terms in other
sources was added later.

illumos April 22, 2015 illumos