NAME

     midicat — send to or receive from MIDI ports

SYNOPSIS

     midicat [-d] [-i file] [-o file] [-q port]

DESCRIPTION

     The midicat utility receives MIDI data from the given input MIDI port and/or sends it to the
     given output MIDI port.  The options are as follows:

     -d      Dump transferred data in hex on stderr.

     -i file
             Read MIDI data from this file instead of receiving it from the MIDI port.  If the
             option argument is ‘-’ then standard input will be used.

     -o file
             Write MIDI data to this file instead of sending it to the MIDI port.  If the option
             argument is ‘-’ then standard output will be used.

     -q port
             Use this sndio(7) MIDI port for input/output.  If the option is used twice, the
             first one specifies the input port and the second one the output port.

     If no files are specified, then midicat transfers data from the MIDI input port to the MIDI
     output port.

EXAMPLES

     Send the given file to rmidi/0:

           $ midicat -i file.syx -q rmidi/0

     Dump data received from rmidi/0 to stderr:

           $ midicat -d -q rmidi/0 -o /dev/null

     Send data from rmidi/0 to midithru/0:

           $ midicat -q rmidi/0 -q midithru/0

SEE ALSO

     midi(4), sndio(7), sndiod(8)