How-To Search for Abbreviations (with wtf)

Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"

$Revision: 03 $

$Date: 2007-01-26 $

Scenario

You have came across a series of strange capital letters, with an unknown meaning. An excellent utility exists to solve that issue.

wtf is part of “bsd-games” package, that came to the Linux world from NetBSD project (thanks them!).

Procedure

  1. First, make sure that wtf is installed, by doing:

    > rpm -q bsd-games
    bsd-games-2.13-386

    If not, then install it first. Fortunately, the bsd-games package is included with openSUSE.

  2. Start by typing:

    > wtf AFAIK
    AFAIK: as far as I know
    

    Discovering the rest will be left as an exercise to the suser. (SUSE user)

For More Information

Newest abbreviants dictionaries from NetBSD CVS: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/misc/acronyms. and http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/misc/acronyms.comp.

Online abbreviations finder: http://www.acronymfinder.com.