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dbus-send(1)							  dbus-send(1)

NAME
       dbus-send - Send a message to a message bus

SYNOPSIS
       dbus-send  [--system  |	--session]  [--dest=NAME] [--print-reply[=lit‐
       eral]] [--reply-timeout=MSEC] [--type=TYPE] OBJECT_PATH	INTERFACE.MEM‐
       BER [CONTENTS ...]

DESCRIPTION
       The dbus-send command is used to send a message to a D-Bus message bus.
       See  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/  for  more   information
       about the big picture.

       There  are  two	well-known  message  buses: the systemwide message bus
       (installed on  many  systems  as	 the  "messagebus"  service)  and  the
       per-user-login-session  message bus (started each time a user logs in).
       The --system and --session options direct dbus-send to send messages to
       the  system  or	session	 buses respectively.  If neither is specified,
       dbus-send sends to the session bus.

       Nearly all uses of dbus-send must provide the --dest argument which  is
       the  name  of a connection on the bus to send the message to. If --dest
       is omitted, no destination is set.

       The object path and the name of the message  to	send  must  always  be
       specified.  Following arguments, if any, are the message contents (mes‐
       sage arguments).	 These are given  as  type-specified  values  and  may
       include containers (arrays, dicts, and variants) as described below.

       <contents>   ::= <item> | <container> [ <item> | <container>...]
       <item>	    ::= <type>:<value>
       <container>  ::= <array> | <dict> | <variant>
       <array>	    ::= array:<type>:<value>[,<value>...]
       <dict>	    ::= dict:<type>:<type>:<key>,<value>[,<key>,<value>...]
       <variant>    ::= variant:<type>:<value>
       <type>	    ::= string | int16 | uint 16 | int32 | uint32 | int64 | uint64 | double | byte | boolean | objpath

       D-Bus supports more types than these, but dbus-send currently does not.
       Also, dbus-send does not permit empty containers or  nested  containers
       (e.g. arrays of variants).

       Here is an example invocation:

	 dbus-send --dest=org.freedesktop.ExampleName		    \
		   /org/freedesktop/sample/object/name		    \
		   org.freedesktop.ExampleInterface.ExampleMethod   \
		   int32:47 string:'hello world' double:65.32	    \
		   array:string:"1st item","next item","last item"  \
		   dict:string:int32:"one",1,"two",2,"three",3	    \
		   variant:int32:-8				    \
		   objpath:/org/freedesktop/sample/object/name

       Note  that the interface is separated from a method or signal name by a
       dot, though in the actual protocol the interface and the interface mem‐
       ber are separate fields.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       --dest=NAME
	      Specify the name of the connection to receive the message.

       --print-reply
	      Block  for  a  reply  to	the  message sent, and print any reply
	      received in a human-readable form.

       --print-reply=literal
	      Block for a reply to the message sent, and print the body of the
	      reply. If the reply is an object path or a string, it is printed
	      literally, with no punctuation, escape characters etc.

       --reply-timeout=MSEC
	      Wait for a reply for up to MSEC milliseconds.   The  default  is
	      implementation‐defined, typically 25 seconds.

       --system
	      Send to the system message bus.

       --session
	      Send to the session message bus.	(This is the default.)

       --type=TYPE
	      Specify method_call or signal (defaults to "signal").

AUTHOR
       dbus-send was written by Philip Blundell.

BUGS
       Please  send  bug reports to the D-Bus mailing list or bug tracker, see
       http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/

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