acpitail(1)

πŸ“¦ version 0.1, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

✨ acpitail(1) ✨

Hiii bestie πŸ¦‹ okay so this is the manual page for acpitail, and it's literally the cutest little tool for keeping tabs on your laptop's ACPI vibes πŸ’…

NAME

acpitail is giving "show ACPI info in a tail-like style" 🌸 aka acpitail β€” it shows your battery, fan, and temperature stats, and it's SO iconic because it only adds a new line when a value actually changes πŸ”₯

SYNOPSIS

acpitail [OPTION]...

πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

Okay so acpitail is lowkey the main character πŸ‘‘ It shows ACPI status info about your battery, fan, and temperature in a tail-like manner. The second a value changes, the new one gets appended to the current output. No cap, it's like a live feed but make it aesthetic ✨

πŸŽ€ OPTIONS πŸŽ€

  • -A x β€” set the update interval for AC state info to x seconds (default: 300) πŸ”Œ
  • -B x β€” set the update interval for battery info to x seconds (default: 15) πŸ”‹
  • -F x β€” set the update interval for fan info to x seconds (default: 5) πŸŒ€
  • -Z x β€” set the update interval for zone info to x seconds (default: 5) 🌑️
  • -h β€” show help 🧚
  • -V β€” show version information πŸ“

πŸ‘― AUTHORS πŸ‘―

acpitail is developed by Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> πŸ’œ

This manual page was written by Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> for the Debian system, but honestly anyone's welcome to use it 🫢

πŸ¦‹ SEE ALSO πŸ¦‹

libacpi(3), yacpi(1) ✨


Bestie, that's the whole page! πŸ’… Source is acpitail's manpage from the 2007-08-04 release, rewritten with love for you πŸŒˆπŸ’–

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from