SYSTEMD-AC-POWER(1)

💖 systemd-ac-power(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the systemd-ac-power manual page — yes it's a real one, yes it's tiny, and yes it's lowkey iconic for how much it does with so little. sit down, grab a snack 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

systemd-ac-power — it tells you whether we're plugged into an external power source or not. that's the whole job. main character energy, minimal dialogue. 👑

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

systemd-ac-power [OPTIONS...]

that's it. that's the vibe. no positional args, no drama, just options. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, systemd-ac-power is the little tool you run when you wanna know if the system is chillin' on AC power or not.

by default it's so quiet about it — it literally just returns success (if it can detect that we're running on AC power) or failure, with zero output. no text, no emoji, nothing. just a silent little yes or no. 🙈

and bestie, that silence is the point — it's genuinely useful for stuff like debugging ConditionACPower= (peep systemd.unit(5) if you wanna go deeper, iykyk). 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's everything it understands, and ngl the list is short but every single one eats:

• -v, --verbose — shows the result as actual text instead of just quietly returning success or failure. so if you were like "girl what did it say" — now it says it. 💬

Added in version 253.

• --low — plot twist! instead of showing the AC power state, it shows the low battery state. in this case it returns zero if all batteries are currently discharging and are below 5% of maximum charge. returns non-zero otherwise. it's giving "are we cooked" energy. 🪫

Added in version 254.

• -h, --help — prints a short help text and dips. ✌️
• --version — prints a short version string and dips. ✌️

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

on success — meaning yes bestie, you're running on AC power — 0 is returned. 🌈

anything else? a non-zero failure code. periodt. 💅

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• systemd(1)

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heads up queen: that default behaviour of no output at all is not a bug, it's a feature. it's meant to be used as a silent check, not a chatty little report. if you want words, pass --verbose. 💖

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okay that's the whole page, and honestly? she's perfect. short, sweet, does exactly one thing and does it flawlessly. obsessed. 💜

this has been systemd-ac-power, part of systemd 262.1. love u, go check your power cable, mwah 💋✨