upower

UPower command line tool

TLDR

Display power and battery information

$ upower --dump

List all power devices

$ upower --enumerate

Watch for and print power status changes

$ upower --monitor

Watch for and print detailed power status changes

$ upower --monitor-detail

Display version

$ upower --version

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

upower is a simple command line client for the UPower(7) daemon. TODO: not fully documented.

OPTIONS

--monitor

Connect to the UPower daemon and print a line every time a power source is added, removed or changed.

--monitor-detail

Like --monitor but prints the full details of the power source whenever an event happens.

--help

Show help options.

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.

AUTHOR

Written by David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com> with a lot of help from many others.