Manual page for DREAD(1)
dread - read from the defaults database
SYNOPSIS
dread -l
dread [ owner ] name
dread -g name
dread -n name
dread -o owner
DESCRIPTION
dread
looks through the user's defaults database
for a variable and its associated value, and
outputs this information to the standard output.
owner
is the application associated with the variable
name
(owner may instead have the value ``GLOBAL'' or ``System'').
The -l option displays all the variables and default values in the
database. To display a subset of the database, other options can be
used instead:
- dread [ owner ] name
-
Searches for owner's value for the variable.
If no owner application is
specified, the owner GLOBAL is searched.
- dread -g name
-
Searches the owner GLOBAL for a value of the variable.
This is the same as using
the previous option with no owner specified.
- dread -n name
-
Searches all possible owners for a value of the variable.
- dread -o owner
-
Searches the specifed owner application for the values of all its variables.
The owner, name, and value fields output by dread are
separated by spaces, so that those values can be used as
input to dwrite.
For example:
-
dread -l | sed s/Ohlfs/Helvetica/ | dwrite
SEE ALSO
dwrite(1), dremove(1)
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