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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 de-
       coded by	lircd, the LIRC	daemon.	You can	give irexec a command line pa-
       rameter 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	termi-
       nates.  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  pro-
       gram  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  lo-
       cated under html/ in the	documentation directory.

irexec 0.9.0			  March	2011			     IREXEC(1)

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