Pow scripts

This is a convention I wish somebody else had thought of and publicized widely a long time ago... there should be one memorable command to see the most relevant power and sensor info on every Linux box. My convention is to call this pow. It has to be implemented differently on different systems, although that could be automated in some kind of complicated "pow" package which noone has written, AFAIK.

ACPI-compatible PCs

A shell alias might be good enough:

alias pow='cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info | grep last | cat - /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature'

or you could use a script:

#!/bin/sh
CHARGE_NOW=`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now`
CHARGE_FULL=`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full`
CHARGE_PERCENT=$(( $CHARGE_NOW * 100 / $CHARGE_FULL ))
CHARGE_NOW=`cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep remaining | cut -c26-`
CHARGE_FULL=`cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info | grep last | cut -c26-`
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | grep -v remaining
echo "Charge:                    $CHARGE_NOW / $CHARGE_FULL = $CHARGE_PERCENT%"
cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZS0/temperature /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZS1/temperature

which produces output like this:

[acer][02:10:26 PM] pow
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          charging
present rate:            2200 mA
present voltage:         11663 mV
Charge:	           1606 mAh / 3799 mAh = 42%
temperature:             45 C
temperature:             48 C

Apple Intel systems

Apple uses SMC (system management whatchamacallit) rather than ACPI. If the kernel has support for that, there will be some nodes under /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768 on a mac mini; not sure if the 768 is different on other systems, or what. Here's another crude script (which would be better re-written in python):

#!/bin/sh
for s in `ls /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.*/temp*`
do
        integer=`cat $s | cut -c1-2`
        fraction=`cat $s | cut -c3-5`
        echo "temperature:               $integer.$fraction"
done
for s in `ls /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.*/fan*output`
do
        partial_path=`echo $s | cut -d'_' -f1`
        name=`echo $partial_path | cut -d'/' -f6`
        current=`cat $s`
        min=`cat ${partial_path}_min`
        max=`cat ${partial_path}_max`
        echo "$name:                      $current RPM (range $min - $max)"
done

and its output looks like this:

[mini][03:40:05 PM] pow
temperature:               59.750
temperature:               55.000
fan1:                      1566 RPM (range 1000 - 5500)