This command requires the Advanced Power Management subsystem.
If run without arguments it reads
/proc/apm
and presents the output in a human-readable format.
Given a
-S
or
-s
option it requests that the machine be put into the APM standby
or the APM suspend state, respectively.
For a brief description of these states, see
apmd(8).
OPTIONS
-V, --version
Print the version of the program and exit.
-v, --verbose
Also print version information for the APM subsystem.
The APM subsystem consists of power-management hardware,
firmware usually referred to as the APM BIOS
and a driver in the operating system kernel.
-m, --minutes
Print the time remaining as a number of minutes.
The default is to print the time remaining in "hours:minutes" format.
-M, --monitor
Continuously monitor and update the status information.
Assumes that the standard output is a terminal.
-S, --standby
Request that the machine be put into the APM standby state.
-s, --suspend
Request that the machine be put into the APM suspend state.
-d, --debug
Print APM status information in a format more useful for debugging.
Implies -v.
FILES
/proc/apm
AUTHOR
This program was written by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) and may be freely
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. There is
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for this program. The current maintainer is Avery
Pennarun (apenwarr@worldvisions.ca).
