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IREXEC(1)                        User Commands                       IREXEC(1)

NAME
       irexec - run programs with one button press

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
       usually ~/.lircrc.

       If irexec executes a program it will wait until this program
       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

       -n --name
              use this program name

OPTIONS
       If you add the --daemon option irexec will fork to background. 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 directory.

irexec 0.9.0                      March 2011                         IREXEC(1)