1WTF(6) BSD Games Manual WTF(6)
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4 wtf — look up terms
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7 wtf [-f dbfile] [-o] [is] term ...
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10 The wtf utility looks up the meaning of one or more term operands speci‐
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13 term will first be searched for as an acronym in the acronym databases,
14 which are expected to be in the format “acronym[tab]meaning”. If no
15 match has been found, wtf will check to see if the term is known by
16 whatis(1), pkg_info(1), or, when called from within a pkgsrc package
17 directory, pkgsrc's internal help facility, “make help topic=XXX”.
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19 The optional is operand will be ignored, allowing the fairly natural “wtf
20 is WTF” usage.
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22 The following option is available:
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24 -f dbfile
25 Overrides the default list of acronym databases, bypassing the
26 value of the ACRONYMDB variable. Unlike this variable the -f
27 option only accepts one file name as an argument, but it may be
28 given multiple times to specify more than one file to use.
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30 -o Include acronyms that could be considered offensive to some.
31 Please consult fortune(6) for more information about the -o flag.
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34 ACRONYMDB The default list of acronym databases may be overridden by
35 setting the environment variable ACRONYMDB to the name of one
36 or more space-separated file names of acronym databases.
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39 /usr/share/misc/acronyms default acronym database.
40 /usr/share/misc/acronyms-o default offensive acronym database.
41 /usr/share/misc/acronyms.comp default computer-related acronym database.
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44 make(1), pkg_info(1), whatis(1), fortune(6)
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47 wtf first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. Initially it only translated acronyms;
48 functionality to look up the meaning of terms in other sources was added
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