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I would appreciate a list of requirements. Does it only work on mac? What kind of terminals can be used?

The repo is https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf/. I'd guess at it supporting macOS (brew installation) and Linux (commit messages).

I cannot get it to compile in linux. I would like to know if it is supposed to, before digging any further.

The releases include Linux binaries: https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf/releases

  $ uname -a
  Linux hostname 5.2.9-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Aug 16 16:24:43 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  $ git clone https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf
  [...]
  $ cd wtf
  $ make
  [...]
  $ ./bin/wtfutil

seems to work fine here

Also available as a Docker container: https://hub.docker.com/r/wtfutil/wtf

It's highly likely this won't work as-is, unfortunately. Docker support is "experimental" at best and a lot more effort needs to be put into the Dockerfile.

I do not really see the point of providing docker containers for tiny command line programs. I feel like an old curmudgeon that cannot make sense of the modern world; at all.

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