IRPTY(1)

💅 irpty — the pseudo tty driver, bestie edition

okay so you know how irpty is a User Command in section 1 of the manual? yeah. that's the one. she's a pseudo tty driver and she's iconic, no cap. let's get into it 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

irpty [options] config_file -- program [args ...]

like. that's the whole shape of it. options, then your config_file, then the lil -- divider, then the program and whatever args you wanna hand her. periodt 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: irpty connects to lircd to receive infrared codes and turns them into key strokes. that's the whole vibe. remote control energy, but make it keyboard. 🔥

for example, you could literally type:

irpty ~/.config/lircrc -- workbone

and boom, you're controlling the CD-player program workbone. main character behaviour fr fr. 🫶

heads up tho: of course you're gonna have to create an appropriate config file for this first. she's not gonna read your mind, bestie 😭

the config string gets passed to whatever application you're running. and ngl, you can use escape sequences to specify non printable characters. if you wanna know the deets on that, go have a look at the .lircrc file format description. it's giving ✨ documentation ✨. iykyk.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, no skips, we're thorough in this house 💅

• -h, --help — display usage summary. the "hey what do i do" button 🦋
• -V, --version — display version. flex the numbers ✨
• -e, --no-echo — disable echo. she goes quiet 🍓
• -i, --ignore-eof — ignore EOF. not today, end-of-file 🌈
• -n, --non-interactive — force non-interactive mode. no back-and-forth, just business 💀
• -v, --verbose — verbose mode. she will tell you EVERYTHING 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages. they live under html/ in the documentation directory. go read her, she ate. 📚

okay that's the whole page, we're done here 🎀 mwah! this was irpty 0.10.2, last changed back in Aug 2015, and yeah she's still slaying. bye bestie, go control something with your remote 👑💖