LAPTOP-DETECT(1)

👑 LAPTOP-DETECT 👑

okay bestie, so this is laptop-detect(1) from the User Commands section of the manual, and it's literally exactly what it sounds like 💅

✨ NAME ✨

laptop-detect — attempt to detect a laptop 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

laptop-detect [-h|--help|-v|--verbose|-V|--version|-D|--debug]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So laptop-detect is out here trying to figure out whether it's being run on a laptop or a desktop, and then it tells whoever called it what it found. That's it. That's the whole vibe. it's giving detective but make it chassis 🔍✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -h, --help — spits out the help info and then dips. so helpful, so polite 🎀
• -v, --verbose — be verbose, bestie! the messages go to STDOUT 🗣️✨
• -V, --version — outputs the version info and then exits, iconic behavior 👑
• -D, --debug — debug mode. we're getting into the weeds fr fr 🔥

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 0 — most likely running on a laptop 💻✨
• 1 — most likely NOT running on a laptop 🙈
• 2 — usage error (you supplied arguments, and it did not care for that) 😭

lowkey important: that 2 only shows up when arguments get supplied, so mind your flags bestie 🫶

🍓 FILES 🍓

these are the little places it goes snooping, no cap:

• /proc/acpi/battery
• /proc/pmu/info
• /dev/mem
• /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/chassis_type
• /sys/class/power_supply/*/type
• /proc/apm

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dmidecode(8) — go read that one too, it's the main character of hardware snooping 🧚

mwah 💖 this little page is from laptop-detect 0.14, dated March 2017 — and the manpage itself is LAPTOP-DETECT(1). bye bestie, go touch grass (or don't, the laptop needs you) 🌸🦋