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
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.