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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  spec-
     ify  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= en-
     tries 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)

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