There are a few different ways you can display battery status and thermal temperature information from the command line on a Linux laptop:
acpi
command: The acpi
command is a command-line utility that can be used to display battery and thermal information on many Linux systems. To display battery status, use the -b
flag:acpi -b
To display thermal information, use the -t
flag:
acpi -t
upower
command: The upower
command is a command-line utility that can be used to display battery and power management information on many Linux systems. To display battery status, use the -i
flag followed by the battery device:upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
To display thermal information, use the sensors
command:
sensors
/sys
filesystem: The /sys
filesystem contains a virtual file system that provides access to information about the hardware and kernel of a Linux system. To display battery status, you can read the files in the /sys/class/power_supply/<battery>
directory, where <battery>
is the name of the battery device (e.g. BAT0
). For example, to display the remaining capacity of the battery, you can use the following command:cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity
To display thermal information, you can read the files in the /sys/class/thermal
directory. For example, to display the temperature of the thermal zone 0
, you can use the following command:
cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp
Note: The availability and exact location of the battery and thermal information in the /sys
filesystem may vary depending on the hardware and kernel of your Linux system.