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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.