ircat (1) Linux Manual Page

ircat – print strings when pressing buttons

Synopsis

ircat [options] <prog>

Description

This program prints config strings to standard output. It can be used to provide remote control input to scripts and to debug your .lircrc file.

The argument to the program is the program name, as it appears in the prog entries in .lircrc.

-h –help

display usage summary

-v –version

display version

-c –config=<file>

set config file

Examples

If .lircrc contains:

begin

 prog = myprog

 button = KEY_CHANNELUP

 config = next_file

end

then

$ ircat myprog

will print "next_file" (followed by newline) every time the button bound to KEY_CHANNELUP is pressed.

See Also

The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. They are located under html/ in the documentation directory.