wdread(1)

💖 wdread — read value from defaults database 💖

okay so bestie, imagine you need to peek inside the defaults database and pull out one single little value. that's literally what wdread does. it's a General Commands Manual girlie, she lives in the Window Maker universe, and she is sooo good at her one job. no notes. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wdread [options] domain key

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea 🍓 — wdread goes and grabs the value that's chillin' next to the key key, inside the domain domain, and then prints that value right out on stdout. that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap, she's a one-trick pony and she ATE. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — prints a help message with the whole list of options, because sometimes you just need her to tell you what she can do 🫶
• --version — prints the version of Window Maker that this program came from ⭐

🦋 EXIT STATUS 🦋

the way that wdread just tells you how it went by exiting with a code… main character energy fr fr. here's the vibe check:

1. 0 — slay!! the key was successfully found and its content got printed 💖
1. 1 — you didn't invoke the program properly (either an unknown option, or the argument count was just wrong 😭)
1. 1 — the domain's file could not be read, which is probably because that domain doesn't even exist 🙈
1. 2 — the key was not found in the domain. it's giving "who is she" 💀

yes bestie, there are two different situations that both give you 1. that's not a typo, that's just how she is. iconic behavior, honestly.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• wdwrite(1)
• wmaker(1)

iykyk, go check those out too 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.info>. and get this — wdread is a part of Window Maker, and it was cowardly remade from wdwrite.c by judas@hell on Jan 26 2001. (their words, not mine, but I respect the self-aware honesty 😭)

this manpage was written by Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used by others, because sharing is caring 🫶).

and that's the whole page babes 💅 wdread(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated April 2015 — mwah, go read some defaults, love u, bye ✨👑💖