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 = tv_p+         config = next_file end

then

$ ircat myprog

will print "next_file" (followed by newline) every time the button tv_p+ is pressed.

SEE ALSO


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

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