WTF(6) BSD Games Manual WTF(6)NAMEwtf — translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you.
wtfindex — builds string file indexes for wtf.
wtfdump — lists the contents of a wtf database.
SYNOPSISwtf [-a] [is] pattern
wtfindex filename
wtfdump filename
DESCRIPTION
The wtf program looks-up the definition of a term. It supports a number
of definition sources. In this version they are an acronyms database and
a filename suffixes database.
Like the NetBSD 1.5 version of wtf, this version will ignore an “is”
given on the command line, allowing the more natural usage: wtf is wtf.
Like man, wtf will display all matches found when the -a flag is given on
the command line.
The wtfindex program builds an index of the entries in filename. This
index is written to filename.dat. filename must contain a series of
lines. Each line should consist of a key (the term being defined) and a
value (the definition) separated by a single tab character, and should be
terminated by a newline character.
The wtfdump program lists the entries in filename in ascending order.
EXAMPLES
Find out what AFAIK stands for
$ wtf afaik
Find all the meanings of WTF
$ wtf-a WTF
Find out what the .asm extension means
$ wtf .asm
What the author of the program thinks of SCO
$ wtf is SCO (try this one!!!)
FILES
/usr/share/wtf System-wide directory to search for data files.
$HOME/.wtf User specific directory to search for data files.
ENVIRONMENT
WTFPATH A colon delimited list of directories to be searched.
SEE ALSOfortune(6), whatis(1), wtf(6), sort(1)BUGS
The index files are not transportable across machines of different
endian-ness and/or with different sizes of unsigned long.
The command-line argument handling code is very rudimentary.
No doubt there are a great many more. If you find any, please squash them
and send the pieces to the author.
HISTORYwtf first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.
This version of wtf was created on Slackware Linux 9.0.0
AUTHOR
Thomas Sutton
(thsutton@utas.edu.au)
GAMES August 24, 2003 GAMES
