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 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.