Linux Command To Check Laptop Battery Health

What command I need to run to check the health of my System 76 laptop battery in Ubuntu or Debian Linux?

You can either use /sys/ file system or command line acpi or upower. You must login as root user. Open the Terminal application and type any one of the following command.

Tutorial details
Difficulty	Easy (rss)
Root privileges	No
Requirements	None
Time	1m

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Linux GUI tool to check your laptop battery health

Click on battery icon in the sidebar or top bar right side battery icon. You will get an window as follows:

Linux command to check your laptop battery health

The syntax is:

acpi

OR

acpi -ib

OR

upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0

Sample outputs:

Here is output from upower command:

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• See our FAQ: Linux Read CPU Temperature Sensor Chip Data

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• See our Tip: Linux: Monitor hard disks temperature with hddtemp

See also

• Man pages: proc(5)

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