1.\" $NetBSD: wtf.6,v 1.15 2012/10/03 19:50:43 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Public Domain 4.\" 5.Dd October 3, 2012 6.Dt WTF 6 7.Os 8.Sh NAME 9.Nm wtf 10.Nd translate acronyms 11.Sh SYNOPSIS 12.Nm 13.Op Fl f Ar dbfile 14.Op Ar is 15.Ar acronym ... 16.Sh DESCRIPTION 17The 18.Nm 19utility displays the expansion of one or more acronyms 20specified on the command line. 21If an acronym is not in any of the acronym databases, 22which are expected to be in the format 23.Dq acronym[tab]meaning , 24.Nm 25will check to see if it is known by 26.Xr whatis 1 , 27.Xr pkg_info 1 , 28or via pkgsrc's internal help mechanism, 29.Dq make help topic=XXX . 30.Pp 31If 32.Dq is 33is specified on the command line, it will be ignored, allowing the 34fairly natural 35.Dq wtf is WTF 36usage. 37.Pp 38The following options are available: 39.Bl -tag -width flag 40.It Fl f Ar dbfile 41Overrides the default list of acronym databases, bypassing the value of the 42.Ev ACRONYMDB 43variable. 44Unlike this variable the 45.Fl f 46option only accepts one file name as an argument, 47but it may be given multiple times to specify more than one file to use. 48.El 49.Sh ENVIRONMENT 50.Bl -tag -width ACRONYMDB 51.It Ev ACRONYMDB 52The default list of acronym databases may be overridden by setting the 53environment variable 54.Ev ACRONYMDB 55to the name of one or more space-separated file names of 56acronym databases. 57.El 58.Sh FILES 59.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/acronyms.XXXX -compact 60.It Pa /usr/share/misc/acronyms 61default acronym database. 62.It Pa /usr/share/misc/acronyms.comp 63default computer-related acronym database. 64.El 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr make 1 , 67.Xr pkg_info 1 , 68.Xr whatis 1 69.Sh HISTORY 70.Nm 71first appeared in 72.Nx 1.5 . 73