battery level from command line

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED
<m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:57:30 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>
>  > On Friday 14 March 2008, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>  >> On my FC8 laptop, is there a way to determine the battery level from
>  >> the command line, without a GUI?
>  >>
>  >> Thanks,
>  >> Mike.
>  >
>  > cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT*/state
>  >
>  > Dennis
>
>  Looks good.  How do I know the full mAh?  I guess I'll
>  just wait and see.
>
>  # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
>  present:                 yes
>  capacity state:          ok
>  charging state:          charging
>  present rate:            unknown
>  remaining capacity:      3040 mAh
>  present voltage:         12483 mV

info might tell you that

John