[[bat.sh]] is a [[bash]] script to display the available battery charge. When I'm running X, I usually monitor battery charge with [conky][], but I wanted a script to allow quick status checks from the command line. You can dig into `/sys/class/power_supply/` if you like, but the [acpi client][] (`sys-power/acpi`) provides a nicer interface: $ acpi -b Battery 0: Discharging, 99%, 05:06:14 remaining [conky]: http://conky.sourceforge.net/ [acpi]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpiclient/ [[!tag tags/bash]] [[!tag tags/programming]]