wat - wat are this?

wat helps you find out what all the things in your Linux system are. You can ask it for information on:

• executables
• services
• bash built-ins
• packages
• files and folders (based on wat-pages)

To find out what something is, simply pass the name to wat:

> wat zeitgeist

zeitgeist (package): Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user's activities and 
events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, etc.) 
and makes the relevant information available to other applications.

> wat /var/spool

/var/spool (directory): This directory contains data which is awaiting some kind of later processing. Data 
in /var/spool represents work to be done in the future (by a program, user, or 
administrator); often data is deleted after it has been processed.

Installation

wat requires Python 3.10. wat runs on most Linux distributions and can be used with MacOS, however with a limited feature set for now.

From PyPi

pip3 install wat-terminal

From repository

1. Install requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Install wat as a command line tool: python3 setup.py install

Usage

usage: wat [-h] [--version] [--update] [--skip-empty-result] [name ...]

positional arguments:
  name                 name of the thing to lookup

options:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --version            show program's version number and exit
  --update, -u         update the page sources
  --skip-empty-result  if there is no result, don't print anything

Acknowledgments!

The inital repository structure is based on navdeep-G/samplemod.

The implementation internally uses the Python-client of tldr.