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wol — Client for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets. More information: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/wa

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Problem

How to use the wol command: Client for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets. More information: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/wake-on-lan/>.

Solution

wol — Client for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets. More information: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/wake-on-lan/>.

Send a WoL packet to a device:

wol {{mac_address}}

Send a WoL packet to a device in another subnet based on its IP:

wol {{[-i|--ipaddr]}} {{ip_address}} {{mac_address}}

Send a WoL packet to a device in another subnet based on its hostname:

wol {{[-h|--host]}} {{hostname}} {{mac_address}}

Send a WoL packet to a specific port on a host:

wol {{[-p|--port]}} {{port_number}} {{mac_address}}

Read hardware addresses, IP addresses/hostnames, optional ports and SecureON passwords from a file:

wol {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/file}}

Turn on verbose output:

wol {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{mac_address}}

Code Snippets

Send a WoL packet to a device

wol {{mac_address}}

Send a WoL packet to a device in another subnet based on its IP

wol {{[-i|--ipaddr]}} {{ip_address}} {{mac_address}}

Send a WoL packet to a device in another subnet based on its hostname

wol {{[-h|--host]}} {{hostname}} {{mac_address}}

Send a WoL packet to a specific port on a host

wol {{[-p|--port]}} {{port_number}} {{mac_address}}

Read hardware addresses, IP addresses/hostnames, optional ports and SecureON passwords from a file

wol {{[-f|--file]}} {{path/to/file}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/wol

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