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WTF

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WTF (aka 'wtfutil') is the personal information dashboard for your terminal, providing at-a-glance access to your very important but infrequently-needed stats and data.

Used by thousands of developers and tech people around the world, WTF is free and open-source. To support the continued use and development of WTF, please consider sponsoring WTF via GitHub Sponsors.

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Installation

Installing via Homebrew

The simplest way from Homebrew:

brew install wtfutil

wtfutil

That version can sometimes lag a bit, as recipe updates take time to get accepted into homebrew-core. If you always want the bleeding edge of releases, you can tap it:

brew tap wtfutil/wtfutil
brew install wtfutil

wtfutil

Installing via MacPorts

You can also install via MacPorts:

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install wtfutil

wtfutil

Installing a Binary

Download the latest binary from GitHub.

WTF is a stand-alone binary. Once downloaded, copy it to a location you can run executables from (ie: /usr/local/bin/), and set the permissions accordingly:

chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wtfutil

and you should be good to go.

Installing from Source

If you want to run the build command from within your $GOPATH:

# Set the Go proxy
export GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"

# Disable the Go checksum database
export GOSUMDB=off

# Enable Go modules
export GO111MODULE=on

go get -u github.com/wtfutil/wtf
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/wtfutil/wtf
make install
make run

If you want to run the build command from a folder that is not in your $GOPATH:

# Set the Go proxy
export GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"

go get -u github.com/wtfutil/wtf
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/wtfutil/wtf
make install
make run

Installing from Source using Docker

All building is done inside a docker container. You can then copy the binary to your local machine.

curl -o Dockerfile.build https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wtfutil/wtf/master/Dockerfile.build
docker build -f Dockerfile.build -t wtfutil --build-arg=version=master .
docker create --name wtf_build wtfutil
docker cp wtf_build:/usr/local/bin/wtfutil ~/.local/bin
docker rm wtf_build

Note: WTF is only compatible with Go versions 1.16.0 or later (due to the use of Go modules and newer standard library functions). If you would like to use gccgo to compile, you must use gccgo-9 or later which introduces support for Go modules.

Installing via Arch User Repository

Arch Linux users can utilise the wtfutil package to build it from source, or wtfutil-bin to install pre-built binaries.

Running via Docker

You can run wtf inside a docker container:

# download or create the Dockerfile
curl -o Dockerfile https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wtfutil/wtf/master/Dockerfile

# build the docker container
docker build -t wtfutil .

# or for a particular tag or branch
docker build --build-arg=version=v0.25.0 -t wtfutil .

# run the container
docker run -it wtfutil

# run container with a local config file
docker run -it -v path/to/config.yml:/config/config.yml wtfutil --config=/config/config.yml

Communication

GitHub Discussions

Conversations, ideas, discussions are done on GitHub Discussions.

Formerly they were on Slack; that channel has been deprecated.

Twitter

Also, follow on Twitter for news and latest updates.

Documentation

See https://wtfutil.com for the definitive documentation. Here's some short-cuts:

Modules

Modules are the chunks of functionality that make WTF useful. Modules are added and configured by including their configuration values in your config.yml file. The documentation for each module describes how to configure them.

Some interesting modules you might consider adding to get you started:

Getting Bugs Fixed or Features Added

WTF is open-source software, informally maintained by a small collection of volunteers who come and go at their leisure. There are absolutely no guarantees that, even if an issue is opened for them, bugs will be fixed or features added.

If there is a bug that you really need to have fixed or a feature you really want to have implemented, you can greatly increase your chances of that happening by creating a bounty on BountySource to provide an incentive for someone to tackle it.

Contributing to the Source Code

First, kindly read Talk, then code by Dave Cheney. It's great advice and will often save a lot of time and effort.

Next, kindly read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests.

Then create your branch, write your code, submit your PR, and join the rest of the awesome people who've contributed their time and effort towards WTF. Without their contributors, WTF wouldn't be possible.

Don't worry if you've never written Go before, or never contributed to an open source project before, or that your code won't be good enough. For a surprising number of people WTF has been their first Go project, or first open source contribution. If you're here, and you've read this far, you're the right stuff.

Contributing to the Documentation

Documentation now lives in its own repository here: https://github.com/wtfutil/wtfdocs.

Please make all additions and updates to documentation in that repository.

Adding Dependencies

Dependency management in WTF is handled by Go modules. Please check out that page for more details on how Go modules work.

Contributors


Chris Cummer


Anand Sudhir Prayaga


Hossein Mehrabi


FengYa


deltax


Bill Keenan


June S


liyiheng


baustinanki


lucus lee


Mike Lloyd


Sergio Rubio


Farhad Farahi


Lasantha Kularatne


Mark Old


flw


David Barda


Geoff Lee


George Opritescu


Grazfather


Michael Cordell


Patrick José Pereira


sherod taylor


Andrew Scott


Lassi Piironen


BlackWebWolf


andrewzolotukhin


Leon Stigter


Amr Tamimi


Jagdeep Singh


Lineu Felipe


Konstantin


Brendan O'Leary


bertl4398


Ferenc-


Rohan Verma


Tim Fitzgerald


Federico Ruggi


Craig Woodward


ReadmeCritic


Eugene


Kenny Wu


Renán Romero


Bastian Groß


nicholas-eden


Dan Rabinowitz


David Missmann


Mathias Weber


TheRedSpy15


Harald Nordgren


Matei Alexandru Gardus


Sean Smith


Halil Kaskavalci


Johan Denoyer


Jelle Vink


Devin Collins


Danne Stayskal


Max Beizer


E:V:A


Gabriel


Andrew Scibek


FriedCosey


Michele Gerarduzzi


Jack Morris


foorb


Levi Baber


Graham Anderson


Romain Bossart


Kirill Motkov


Brian Choromanski


Sean DuBois


Gary Kim


Dylan


Dmytro Prokhorenkov


Elliot


chenrui


Andrew Suderman


Bob 'Wombat' Hogg


Christopher Hall


Heitor Neiva


Herby Gillot


James Canning


jeffz


Mikkel Jeppesen Juhl


Erik


Nate Yourchuck


Casey Primozic


Alvaro [Andor]


Joel Valentine


Viktor Braun


ChrisDBrown


Narendra L


ibaum


Tim Scheuermann


Indradhanush Gupta


Victor Hugo Avelar Ossorio


Steven Whitehead


Lawrence Craft


Avi Press


Sarah Kraßnigg


Jason Schweier


Massa


Vighnesh SK


Alex Fornuto


stevenwhitehead


Johan Denoyer


Albert Salim


Ricardo N Feliciano


Omer Davutoglu


Hemu


Dan Bent


C123R


Matjaž Depolli


Toon Schoenmakers


TDHTTTT


jottr


Nikolay Mateev


Charlie Wang


liyiheng


Bjoern Weidlich


Scott Hansen


David Bond


Yvonnick Esnault


Vinícius Letério


Adriano


Jon Hadfield


Tejas Shah


Frederik Mogensen


Risto Saarelma


Sam Roberts


gerchardon


Matt


R.I.Pienaar


Frederik Mogensen


aeter


Tim Hwang


Ying Fan Chong


Martin Johns


Jamie Tanna


Todd Trimble


Mitchell Hanberg


Miha Frangež


Sahil Dhiman


Pingzhou | 平舟


Yuval Goldberg


David Bouchare


Fredrik Steen


zye1996


Pierre Gaxatte


Christian Frichot


Lukas Kämmerling


Antoine Meillet


Christian Clauss


Gibran Herrera


Mahmud Ridwan


tadeas


tnwei


Ginner


Olivier Cloux


Dogukan Turan


Devendra Laulkar


nont


Kyrylo Silin


Yoshihisa Mochihara


thuan1412


Siddhant Sinha


Julien Midedji


Igor Zibarev


Eng Zer Jun


Quentin Champ


Igbanam Ogbuluijah


Guney Can Gokoglu


Des Preston


Labesse Kévin


Asad


markcaudill


Fabian Geiger


Duncan Hutty


Gábor Lipták


Albert Fung


pliski


Peter Krantz


bashbunni


Ronald Record


Crash129

Acknowledgments

The inspiration for WTF came from Monica Dinculescu's tiny-care-terminal.

WTF is built atop tcell and tview, fantastic projects both. WTF is built, packaged, and deployed via GoReleaser.