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.
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.
pip3 install wat-terminal
- Install requirements:
pip install -r requirements.txt - Install
watas a command line tool:python3 setup.py install
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
The inital repository structure is based on navdeep-G/samplemod.
The implementation internally uses the Python-client of tldr.