command to check battery life

[wwp]

Hello Lovell,


On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:02:20 -0400 Lovell Mcilwain <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way I can type a command and see how much battery life I have?
> 
> My battery meter shows 0% even though I can unplug it and have the battery
> working with no problem. I just don't have a way to fix this problem so I
> want to know how I can check the battery level when I unplug it.

Rough: cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

If nothing appears, your kernel (acpi part) might lack support for your
hardware.

Some acpi tools may show battery info from command-line :-) (ask
http://freshmeat/ for instance).


Regards,

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wwp