DREAD

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: February 28, 1989
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NAME

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

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DREAD

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