apm - Unix, Linux Command

NAME

apm - interface with the APM subsystem

SYNOPSIS

apm [ -VvmMsSdin ]

DESCRIPTION

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

Tag	Description
-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).