NAME

       battery-graph - Show a graph of the battery charge

SYNOPSIS

       battery-graph [options] [files...]

DESCRIPTION

       Show a graph of the battery charge over time.

       The  files given are assumed to contain battery statistics in the battery-stats(5) format.
       If no files are specified, the default log files will be used.

       The options can be used for displaying a different interval. An  interval  is  defined  in
       terms of a from timestamp, a to timestamp and a duration. By specifying any two, the third
       will be calculated automatically. A missing duration will be defaulted to 3 hours.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options  starting  with
       two dashes (`-').

       -g geometry, --geometry geometry
              Sets the X Windows geometry of the graph. This disables text mode. See X(7) for how
              to specify the geometry.

       -D display, --display display
              Shows the graph on the given display. The same effect can be achived by setting the
              DISPLAY environment variable. This disables text mode. See X(7) for valid values.

       --title string
              Sets  the  title  of  the graph window. By default this will be "Battery Graph". If
              this is set to the empty string, gnuplot(1) will be allowed set the window title  -
              this can be useful if you want your ~/.Xdefaults to take effect for this.

       -f date, --from date
              Specifies  the  start  date/time  for  the  graph.  This  accepts  exactly the same
              date/time specifications as the date (1)  command  -  see  examples  below  or  the
              Texinfo manual for date for details.

       -t date, --to date
              Specifies  the  ending  date/time  for  the  graph.  This  accepts exactly the same
              date/time specifications as the date (1)  command  -  see  examples  below  or  the
              Texinfo manual for date for details.

       -s date, --since date
              Shorthand for --from date --to now

       -d duration, --duration duration
              Specifies the duration for the graph. This can be given in units of seconds, hours,
              days or weeks by suffixing the  number  with  's'  (seconds),  'm'  (minutes),  'h'
              (hours), 'd' (days) or 'w' (weeks).
              Units  cannot  be combined - e.g. '1d6h' will not be valid, whereas '30h' is OK. If
              no unit is specified, minutes will be assumed.

       --text Shows the graph in text mode  on  stdout.  The  resulting  size  of  the  graph  is
              determined  by the values of the environment variables.  LINES and COLUMNS (failing
              that, the output from tput will be used). This is the default when the  environment
              variable DISPLAY is not set.

EXAMPLES

       Show the last 2 hours:
              $ battery-graph --duration 2h

       Show the time since mid day:
              $ battery-graph --from 12:00 --to now
              or
              $ battery-graph --since 12:00

       Show the hour before last:
              $ battery-graph --from '2 hours ago' --duration 1h

       Show the 6 hours after noon:
              $ battery-graph --from 12:00 --duration 6h
              or
              $ battery-graph --from 12:00 --to 18:00

       Show the last 6 hours
              $ battery-graph --from '6 hours ago'
              or
              $ battery-graph --since '6 hours ago'

       Show the last 30 minutes in text mode:
              $ battery-graph --duration 30 --text

       Show statistics for Tuesday last week
              $ battery-graph --duration 24h --from 'tuesday last week'
              or
              $ battery-graph --duration 1d --from 'tuesday last week'

       Prove that the future hasn't happened yet:
              $ battery-graph --from yesterday --to tomorrow

       Another way of wasting CPU cycles:
              $ battery-graph /dev/null

EXIT STATUS

       battery-graph depends on gnuplot (1) to give the correct exit status.

FILES

       If no files are given on the command line, batter-graph reads from /var/log/battery-stats

ENVIRONMENT

       DISPLAY
              If this variable is not set, --text will be defaulted.

       LINES / COLUMNS
              Determines the size of the graph in text mode.

DIAGNOSTICS

       If there are no statistics available for the period chosen, an empty graph will result.

NOTES

       There  is  no  requirement for the from time to be earlier than the to time - if so, the X
       axis will be reversed. Similar results can be achieved using a negative duration.

       Also: battery-stat is quite happy to list statistics in the future; stupid, but obedient.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Karl E. Jørgensen  <karl@jorgensen.com>,  for  the  Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       battery-stats (5),
       date (1),
       battery-stats-collector (8)
       Newer    versions    of    this    program    may   (or   may   not)   be   available   at
       http://karl.jorgensen.com/battery-stats

                                        September 22, 2002                       BATTERY-GRAPH(1)