[solved] how do I check laptops battery power status?

[uneven cloak]

I would like to be able to see it using some command or smth, because I had few times lately when I forgot to plug in power supply and had my laptop power off

[austere sierra]

widgets work right?

[uneven cloak]

I don't have any GUI installed

[austere sierra]

damn

why not?

i have never seen someone like that

[uneven cloak]

Trying to keep it minimalistic

[stable quiver]

Mostly likely /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status
If not, see output of

ls /sys/class/power_supply/*/status

[uneven cloak]

That with BAT0 exists, but how do I access it

To get battery %

[stable quiver]

Isn't that obvious?

[uneven cloak]

Sorry but no

[stable quiver]

cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status

[stable quiver]

cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity

[uneven cloak]

Thank you very much, I am just starting with arch linux so I don't know some of the things

By any chance do you know how to make a script I could run even if I am not in the same directory?

[stable quiver]

Was?

[uneven cloak]

I could make a bash script which shows me battery status and %, but I have to be in the same directory or type out directory to run it

[stable quiver]

content?

[uneven cloak]

Of bash script? These 2 lines

[stable quiver]

It's not like I poses some extrasensory perception. Can you post the content

[uneven cloak]

cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status
cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity

[uneven cloak]

I just noticed that for some reason me replying didn't work in few of my previous messages

[uneven cloak]

I tried replying to this

[stable quiver]

How did you execute it?

[uneven cloak]

If I put it in script.sh I would execute it with ./script.sh or directory/script.sh

[old mirage]

If it’s in your path you can just use script.sh

[stable quiver]

Put the script in the PATH

[uneven cloak]

I want to be able to use it like that no matter the path I am innit that's possible

[old mirage]

Yes, if it’s in a directory in your PATH variable

[twilit heron]

sudo cp script.sh /usr/local/bin/script

then you can just run script

anywhere

[old mirage]

Yep

[uneven cloak]

Thanks, I'll try it tomorrow since I already turned off my pc for the night

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[uneven cloak]

Also thank you very much for these

[sand flame]

You're thanking too much ó_ò

[uneven cloak]

Damn 2 thank you 's is too much

[old mirage]

Too many cookies can be bad for you :/

[uneven cloak]

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[uneven cloak]

Yeah

You want one?

[old mirage]

Nah I’ve got plenty. This is also off topic.

[uneven cloak]

Yeah, I should mark this as solved now

how do I check laptops battery power status? [solved]

[old mirage]

Put solved at the beginning

It might not be visible on smaller screens at the end

[uneven cloak]

Oh ok

[solved] how do I check laptops battery power status?

[uneven cloak]

Doesn't work for some reason

[twilit heron]

is it marked executable

[uneven cloak]

Uhm, how do I do that?

[twilit heron]

sudo chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/script

[uneven cloak]

I did that, what now?

[twilit heron]

you should be able to just type script in the terminal and it will run the script

whatever it's called

because /usr/local/bin is in $PATH

does it work?

[uneven cloak]

Thank you it works

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[twilit heron]

yw 👍

[uneven cloak]

I accidentally made it /script instead of actual script name tho

[twilit heron]

huh

oh

just sudo mv /usr/local/bin/script /usr/local/bin/NAME

where name is whatever you want

[uneven cloak]

Oh, I already did sudo rm old_path, and ran commands with new path

[twilit heron]

that works too

[uneven cloak]

C:

Thanks again, quick question can I use this method to run compiled C code

[twilit heron]

yes

just copy the binary to the same dir

[uneven cloak]

Yeah I realized that

[twilit heron]

just make sure you don't name it the same as another command you already have

because things in /usr/local/bin take priority over things in /usr/bin (which is where commands from installed packages go)

[uneven cloak]

Oh so to make sure not to overwrite stuff like vim

[twilit heron]

you can also copy stuff to /usr/bin, but this is not recommended; /usr/* should only be managed by the package manager
/usr/local/* is for things the user does outside of the package manager

yeah