irexec - run programs with one button press
irexec [options] [config_file]
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
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.
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.
The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are located
under html/ in the documentation directory.