acpi_listen(8)

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💖 acpi_listen — bestie's guide to the ACPI event listener 💖

okay so this is acpi_listen from section 8 (System Manager's Manual, the system-admin corner of the manual-verse), and it's genuinely one of my fave lil tools because it's so simple and does exactly one thing beautifully. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

acpi_listen — an ACPI event listener 🎧

like, it listens. that's the job. that's the whole job.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

acpi_listen [options]

that's it bestie, that's the entire vibe 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so. acpid is the system-wide ACPI event catcher — the big one, the main character, the one actually holding it down for the whole system. 👑

acpi_listen is a simple, shell-friendly tool that connects to acpid and listens for events. when an event happens, acpi_listen prints it on stdout. that's it. no drama, no config files, just vibes and event output. ✨

if you've ever wanted to see what your laptop is yelling at the kernel about (lid closed, power button, that one weird key), this is the tool. iykyk.

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -c, --count events — receive up to a maximum number of ACPI events, then exit. so like, "okay bestie, give me 3 events and then we're done" — it bails after that many. 🍓
  • -s, --socketfile filename — this changes the name of the UNIX domain socket which acpid opens. default is /var/run/acpid.socket. 🧚
  • -t, --time seconds — listen for the specified time in seconds, before exiting. a lil timer, a lil commitment, and then it's out. ⭐
  • -v, --version — print version information and exit. 💜
  • -h, --help — show help and exit. 🫶

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /var/run/acpid.socket

the socket. the connection point. the whole reason this works. 🔥

💀 BUGS 💀

there are no known bugs. literally flawless, we love to see it. 😭✨

to file bug reports, see AUTHORS below. (yes, actually — that's where it points you. iconic.)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go say hi to the parent process, she's doing great 💖

🦋 AUTHORS 🦋

  • Ted Felix (www.tedfelix.com)
  • Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
  • Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>

the trio. the legends. the ones who made this happen. 🌸

no notes, no cap — every flag above does exactly what it says, so go ahead and run it and watch the events roll in 💅

and that's the whole page bestie 🎀 — this one's from the System Manager's Manual, dated Nov 2003, which is giving vintage-but-still-slaying energy fr fr. periodt. 💖✨

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