SYNOPSIS

dcopfind [-a] [-l] service [object]

DESCRIPTION

dcopfind returns a reference to the first instance of the KDE service specified by service. See also dcopstart, which starts a service/application and immediately returns its reference.
 

OPTIONS

-a

Print the application id. Without this argument, the application id will be returned in the form DCOPRef(application id,object id).
 

-l

If the object is not found, run dcopstart and try again.

--help

Show usage information.

EXAMPLES

Return reference to a Kate instance

KATE=`dcopfind -a 'kate-*'` 
 

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Johannes Ranke <[email protected]> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.