man page and usage: -D

Mention the changed character name that happens when running in wizard
mode.
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This is a terse description of nethack's command line arguments.
It is oriented toward UNIX (including descendants such as linux and
macOS) and might not be accurate for other platforms.
It is oriented toward UNIX (including descendants such as linux and macOS)
and might not be accurate for other platforms.
When starting play, if there is a save file for the chosen character name
then it will be restored, otherwise a new game using that name will begin.
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-X must be uppercase; character starts with a wand of wishing and
player may opt to be life-saved and keep going if character dies;
'-D' run in debug mode also known as wizard mode; -D must be uppercase;
if player is not allowed then nethack will switch to -X.
if player is not allowed then nethack will switch to -X; if player
is allowed, character name will be changed to "wizard".
A character name may have a suffix specifying any or all of role, race,
gender, and alignment such as -u Conan-Bar-Hum-Mal-Neu or -u Tim-Wiz.

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option will start the game in a special non-scoring discovery mode
(also known as explore mode).
.B \-D
will start the game in debug mode (also known as wizard mode),
if the player is allowed, otherwise if will switch to
.BR \-X
instead.
will start the game in debug mode (also known as wizard mode) after
changing the character name to \(lqwizard\(rq, if the player is allowed.
Otherwise it will switch to
.BR \-X .
Control of who is allowed to use debug mode is done via the
.RI "\(lq" WIZARDS= "\(rq line in nethack's " sysconf " file."
.PP