sensors(1)

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version 3.6.2 · 5 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 sensors — bestie, let's read ur temps 💖

okay so this is the sensors(1) page from the Linux User's Manual, and honestly? she's a baddie. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

sensors — print sensors information 🌡️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sensors [ options ] [ chips ]
sensors -s [ chips ]
sensors --bus-list

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so sensors is literally the girl who tells you what all ur sensor chips are currently reading. main character energy fr.

sensors -s is her in her setter era — she goes and sets all the limits exactly as they're specified in the configuration file. periodt.

and sensors --bus-list? she generates bus statements that are suitable for the configuration file. iconic behavior 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -c, --config-file config-file — bestie, tell her which configuration file to use. if you don't specify a file, the libsensors default configuration file gets used instead. and if you wanna temporarily disable that default config file? use -c /dev/null and she'll act like it never existed 🙈
  • -h, --help — prints a help text and dips. that's it. that's the whole vibe ✨
  • -s, --set — she evaluates all the set statements in the configuration file and then exits. no cap: you must be root to do this. and if this parameter isn't specified, then like… no set statement gets evaluated at all. zero. none. 💀
  • -A, --no-adapter — do not show the adapter for each chip. she's keeping it lowkey 🍓
  • -u — raw output. this mode is giving debugging energy, and it's also suitable for post-processing the output by scripts. it's also highkey useful when you're writing a configuration file, because it shows the raw input names which must be referenced in the configuration file. iykyk 👑
  • -j — Json output. yeah bestie, json 💜
  • -J — new json output. this mode is suitable for post-processing of the output by scripts. she leveled up fr fr 🔥
  • -v, --version — print the program version and exit. short n sweet 🌈
  • -f, --fahrenheit — print the temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit instead of Celsius. for my american besties 🦅 (affectionate) ⭐
  • --bus-list — generate bus statements suitable for using in sensors.conf. so like, these bus statements are only needed if you have several chips sharing the same address on different buses of the same type. and the reason is that bus numbers are usually not guaranteed to be stable over reboots, so these statements let you refer to each bus by its name rather than numbers. she's solving a real problem, ok?? 🧚
  • -n, --allow-no-sensors — do not fail if no sensors found. the error message will be printed in the log. she's not gonna crash out over it, she's just gonna journal about it 💅😭

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/sensors3.conf
  • /etc/sensors.conf

these are the system wide configuration file(s). see sensors.conf(5) for further details 📖✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

sensors.conf(5), sensors-detect(8).

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Frodo Looijaard and the lm_sensors group https://hwmon.wiki.kernel.org/lm_sensors

bestie reminder: the -s thing needs root, and the default config file can be ghosted with -c /dev/null. that's the whole tea ☕

and that's the page!! this was lm-sensors 3, dated November 2012, and she's still out here being sensors(1) for us. mwah 💖💅✨

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