UPOWER(1)

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version 1.91.5 · 3 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 10, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 UPOWER — the upower command line tool, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk: upower is your little command-line bestie for talking to the UPower(7) daemon. That's it. That's the whole vibe. It's simple, it's iconic, it's giving "I just want to know what my battery is doing" energy. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

upower [--battery] [--dump] [--enumerate] [--monitor-detail] [--monitor]
       [--show-info] [--version] [--help]

no cap, that's the whole thing. she's not complicated, she's just powerful 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

upower is a simple command line client for the UPower(7) daemon. fr fr, that's the entire description. she does one job and she does it flawlessly, main character energy only 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -b, --battery — dumps all parameters for battery devices. every single one. she's thorough like that 💖
  • -d, --dump — dumps all parameters for all devices. not just the batteries, the whole squad 🌈
  • -e, --enumerate — enumerates the object paths of all devices on the system. it's literally just listing who's here, like a lil roll call 📋✨
  • -m, --monitor — connects to the UPower daemon and prints a line every time a power source is added, removed or changed. it's the group chat notifications of power sources, she's always watching 👀
  • --monitor-detail — like --monitor but it prints the full details of the power source whenever an event happens. same energy, but extra. she said "let me give you the whole tea" 🍵💅
  • -i, --show-info OBJECT_PATH — shows information about the given device. hand her an OBJECT_PATH and she'll spill everything about it 🫶
  • -v, --version — prints version information for the client and the daemon. both of them. matching set, adorable 🎀
  • -h, --help — shows help options. when in doubt, ask for help, that's self care bestie 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> with a lot of help from many others. a whole community effort, we love to see it 🫶🌟

💀 BUGS 💀

Please send bug reports to either the distribution or the DeviceKit mailing list. See http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel on how to subscribe.

not me telling you to actually read the subscribe instructions, but like… do it, iykyk 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay that's the whole page, periodt 💅✨ this one came out in April 2008 as part of upower, and yeah, the page header says UPOWER(1) — congrats, you've been reading section 1 of the manual the entire time 🎀 love that for you, go check your battery 🍓

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