SYNOPSIS
irexec [options] [config_file]
DESCRIPTION
This program lets you execute arbitrary commands on an IR
signal decoded by lircd, the LIRC daemon. You can give
irexec a command line parameter which has to be a name of
a valid config file. If no command line parameters are
given irexec reads the default config file which is usu
ally ~/.lircrc.
If irexec executes a program it will wait until this pro
gram terminates. So append a '&' to the command string if
you don't want that.
The config string consists of the command to be run.
-h --help
display usage summary
-v --version
display version
-d --daemon
run in background
OPTIONS
If you add the --daemon option irexec will fork to back
ground. That way you can easily start irexec from an init
script. In this case you should specify a config file on
the command line as irexec won't be able to find your home
directory. Potential uses are shutting down the computer,
starting a dial-up connection etc.
NOTE
If you start irexec, it reads your ~/.lircrc and reacts
only on prog= entries that point to irexec. If you have
included more than one program in your .lircrc, then start
all these programs, they react itself only to their
according entries in .lircrc.
SEE ALSO
The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages.
They are located under html/ in the documentation direc
tory.
irexec 0.6.6 October 2002 IREXEC(1)
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