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1. NAME ▲
acpi - Shows battery status and other ACPI information
2. SYNOPSIS ▲
acpi [options]
3. DESCRIPTION ▲
acpi Shows information from the /proc or the /sys filesystem, such as battery status or thermal information.
4. OPTIONS ▲
-b | --battery 10 show battery information
-a | --ac-adapter 10 show ac adapter information
-t | --thermal 10 show thermal information
-c | --cooling 10 show cooling device information
-V | --everything 10 show every device, overrides above options
-s | --show-empty 10 show non-operational devices
-i | --details 10 show additional details if available:
* battery capacity information
* temperature trip points
-f | --fahrenheit 10 use fahrenheit as the temperature unit instead of default celsius
-k | --kelvin 10 use kelvin as the temperature unit instead of default celsius
-p | --proc 10 use the old /proc interface, default is the new /sys one
-d | --directory <dir> 10 path to ACPI info (either /proc/acpi or /sys/class)
-h | --help 10 display help and exit
-v | --version 10 output version information and exit
5. AUTHOR ▲
The original version of this manual page was written by Paul Telford <> for the Debian system. Newer additions were done by Michael Meskes <>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU GPL.
