NAME¶

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.

ENVIRONMENT¶

LIRC_SOCKET_PATH

The lircd(8) output socket used to retrieve data. Defaults to /var/run/lirc/lircd

SEE ALSO¶

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