NAME

dread − read from the defaults database

SYNOPSIS

dread [ owner ] name
dread -l

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.  If no owner application is specified, the database is searched for a global value for the variable.  The -l option displays all the variables and default values in the database. 

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)

NeXT, Inc.  —  February 28, 1989