XINE-REMOTE(1)

💖 XINE-REMOTE 💖

okay bestie, so like — this is xine-remote, a tiny lil tool whose whole job is connecting to a xine remote control server. yes queen, that's it. that's the gig. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xine-remote [options]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this page gives you the quick-and-dirty rundown on the xine-remote tool, and honestly? it's giving "telnet but make it cute".

here's the tea: xine-remote can straight up replace a raw telnet connection to a xine remote control server. the glow-up is that it uses readline facilities — think completion, vi/emacs shortcuts, command history, all of it, everything you'd expect from a main character terminal experience. 💅

and by default? it tries to connect to localhost, using the default port (peep xine(1) for that one, iykyk).

✨ OPTIONS ✨

this program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (--). here's the full rundown, no skips, no cuts, we don't do that here 🫶

• -H, --host <hostname> — try to connect to <hostname>. like, go find them. 👀
• -P, --port <port> — try to connect to the host using <port>.
• -c, --command <command> — send <command> to the server and then dip (quit). ⚠️ the command should be single quoted if it contains spaces or special characters — do not skip this step bestie, quote it.
• -n, --noconnect — do not initiate the connection on startup. just vibing, unconnected, no cap.
• -v, --version — display version.
• -h, --help — display options summary.

🦋 COMMANDS 🦋

there's a small handful of commands available, and they're basically the open/close the connection girlies:

• ? — display available commands (the xine-remote ones plus the server ones, once a connection is established 👑).
• help <command> — display the purpose of <command>. if <command> is omitted, it displays the available commands instead.
• syntax <command> — display the usage of <command>.
• version — display version.
• open <server[:port]> — open a connection to <server>. a port can optionally be specified, using a colon (:) as the separator. so like open myserver:1234, periodt.
• close — close the connection. bye bye 💀
• quit — leaving xine-remote. the final exit, the end credits, the—

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• xine(1).

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Daniel Caujolle-Bert <f1rmb@users.sourceforge.net> for the xine project. thank you for your service 🫡✨

and that's a wrap!! the xine project, dated 2002-04-16, page XINE-REMOTE(1) — from the General Commands Manual section, mwah 💋 stay connected bestie 💖🌸🦋