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wdread(1) General Commands Manual wdread(1)

wdread - read value from defaults database

wdread [options] domain key

wdread gets the value associated with the key key from the domain domain and prints it on stdout.

print a help message with the list of options
print the version of Window Maker from which the program comes

The program wdread will exit with the following code:

0
when the key was successfully found and its content printed.
1
if the program was not invoked properly (unknown option or incorrect argument count).
1
if the domain's file could not be read (probably nonexistent domain).
2
if the key was not found in the domain.

wdwrite(1), wmaker(1)

Window Maker was written by Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@windowmaker.info>, wdread is a part of Window Maker, was cowardly remade from wdwrite.c; by judas@hell on Jan 26 2001

This manpage was written by Rodolfo García Peñas (kix) for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

April 2015