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TL;DR

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 --ipaddr=ip_address mac_address

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

wol --host=hostname mac_address

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

wol --port=port_number mac_address

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

wol --file=path/to/file

  • Turn on verbose output:

wol --verbose mac_address

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