1WTF(6)                         BSD Games Manual                         WTF(6)
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NAME

4     wtf — look up terms
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SYNOPSIS

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

10     The wtf utility looks up the meaning of one or more term operands speci‐
11     fied on the command line.
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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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ENVIRONMENT

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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FILES

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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SEE ALSO

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

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
49     later.
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