dbus-send(1)						      General Commands Manual						      dbus-send(1)

NAME

       dbus-send - Send a message to a message bus

SYNOPSIS

       dbus-send [--system | --session] [--dest=NAME] [--print-reply] [--type=TYPE] <destination object path> <message name> [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  con-
       tainers (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
       member 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.

       --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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